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Emigrant Soldiers Gazette & Cape Horn Chronicle (Eng-BC, 1858-1859)
Cape Horn Chronicle, Emigrant Soldiers Gazette and (England-BC, 1858-1859)
June 20, 2011
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The Camp Ford News (TX, 1865)
June 20, 2011
1865, Alphabetical Order, C, Images, Prison Papers, Texas, United States, US Civil War-Era Papers Leave a comment
Camp Ford News (TX, 1865)
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Camp Ford (Confederate Prison Fort), Tyler, Texas
Frequency: “Only one copy is known to have been printed, this being the issue of May 1, 1865”
Volume and Issue Data: May 1, 1865 (one issue: Civil War ended the next week)
Size and Format: One sheet broadside
Editor/Publisher: Capt. Lewis Burger
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description & Notes:
Like the OLD FLAG and RIGHT FLANKER, this was a paper created to relieve the monotony and trials of prison life during the Civil War. Only one issue appeared apparently because May 13-17, 1865 marked the end of the Civil War and the abandonment of Camp Ford.
Camp Ford was part of a Confederate prison complex in Tyler and Hempstead, Texas. The prison held officers and enlisted men from 1863 to the end of war and the prisoners had built their own shelters. After 1864 and the Red River Campaign, prison crowding and sickness increased, and the general conditions of prison life declined. It was during these latter days of the War that the paper was produced.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: F. Lee Lawrence and Robert W. Glover, Camp Ford, C.S.A.: The Story of Union Prisoners in Texas (Austin, Texas: Texas Civil War Centennial Advisory Committee, 1964); Mark Boatner, III, The Civil War Dictionary (New York: Random House, 1991).
Locations: Smith County Historical Society, Texas
The Cactus (UT, 1878?-1884)
June 20, 2011
1878, Alphabetical Order, C, Frontier Papers, Humor Papers, United States, Utah Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Panguitch, Garfield County, Utah (1878? 1880?-1884)
Frequency: Irregular, “when the spirit moved”
Volume and Issue Data: Started 1878 or 1879 and published until about 1884
Size and Format: 8 x 10 inches, four pages
Editor/Publisher: John M. Dunning, editor and publisher; James T. Daly, Sr., correspondent or writer
Title Changes and Continuation: Garfield County News, The Recorder, The Register
General Description & Notes:
The paper was first called the Cactus, but the name was changed, possibly, to the Garfield County News, The Recorder, and/or The Register. The paper was not issued regularly but “when the spirit moved.”
According to Alter, editor Dunning was said to have been a humorist and prepared his own jokes for fillers. Many of his poems and other writings also appeared in the Cactus. Says Alter, “It may have been a manuscript, pen-and-ink newspaper.”
Alter notes that “the Manti Home Sentinel mentions March 26, 1886 as being: ‘among our latest exchanges:’ though the echang practice was so universal it is more than likely the Register was just beginning when it received this notice.”
According Lucy Hatch, a member of the Panguitch Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Dunning published the first newspaper in the town “from about 1880 to 1884” and that Daly was a correspondent or writer.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: J. Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism (Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1938), p. 180
Locations: No issues located
See also the Panguitch Register
The Handwritten Newspapers Project 