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[Rare, women-owned, pro-Republican Civil War era newspaper] 37 issues, 148 pages. A large and very rare archive of Civil War Newspapers. Issues start with Jan, 1863. Vol. XIX. Banner head: "Fearless and Free." The Hanover Spectator was a four page weekly, local paper for York and Adams counties, Pennsylvania. Many of the stories were written by Mary Shaw Leader, a pioneering female Civil War newspaper reporter, who worked in her family's newspaper and famously wrote one of the only full record of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Her mother, Maria, ran the paper after 1858. The papers are highly political and cover national, state, and local elections, War News, international, local news, etc. Quite exceptional. Some issues have loss or staining, a few issues have ads which have been cut out, but most of the articles and issues are complete. Sold as is! List of pages included: 1. Jan. 2, 1863, No.14 (Raid by CSS Alabama); 2. Jan. 9, 1863, No.15 (Murfreesboro TN, Terrible Lose of Life, Sinking of the Iron Clad monitor, 2 officers and 38 men lost, full text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln); 3. Jan. 16, 1863, No.16; 4. Jan. 23, 1863, No.17; 5. Jan. 30, 1863, No.18; 6. Feb. 6, 1863, No.19 (Naval Battles in Gulf of Mexico, Galveston, War in Arkansas); 7. Feb. 13, 1863, No.20 (Bill for Colored Soldiers, Combat between Rebel and Negro Soldiers Florida, Fight at Fort Donelson); 8. Feb. 20, 1863, No.21; 9. Feb. 27, 1863, No.22; 10. Mar. 6, 1863, No.23; 11. Mar. 20, 1863, No.25; 12. Mar. 27, 1863, No.26; 13. Apr. 3, 1863, No.27; 14. Apr. 10, 1863, No.28; 15. Apr. 17, 1863, No.29 (With loss, Proclamation by Lincoln); 16. Apr. 24, 1863, No.30; 17. May 1, 1863, No.31; 18. May 8, 1863, No.32 (Battle of Fredericksburg, Lee vs. Hooker); 19. May 15, 1863, No.33; 20. May 22, 1863, No.34; 21. May 29, 1863, No.35; (Gen Grant's Victories, Defeat of Gen. Johnston)22. June 5, 1863, No.3623. June 12, 1863, No.3724. July 19, 1863, No.3825. July 26, 1863, No.3926. July 10, 1863, No.41 (Battle of Gettysburg, Rebels Repulsed, Grand Victory Battle of Gettysburg, Vicksburg Captured, Hancock whips Longstreet); 27. July 17, 1863, No.42;28. July 24, 1863, No.43; 29. July 31, 1863, No.44; 30. Aug. 7, 1863, No.45 (Siege of Charleston SC); 31. Aug. 14, 1863, No.45 (NY Draft Riots); 32. Aug. 21, 1863, No.46; 33. Aug. 28, 1863, No.47; 34. Sep. 4, 1863, No.48; 35. Sep. 11, 1863, No.49; 36. Sep. 18, 1863, No.50; 37. Sep. 25, 1863, No.52.
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