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The Hanover Spectator - A Large Collection of Civil War Newspapers (79 issues, 1863 - 1864)

by Mary Shaw Leader; Maria Leader

$8,330 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

S. Leader, 1863. First Edition. Softcover. Acceptable. [Rare, women-owned, pro-Republican Civil War era newspaper] 79 issues, 316 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 old water staining, a few issues have ads cut out, but most of the articles and issues are complete and in good condition. Sold as is! List of newspapers included: Vol. XIX: 1. Jan. 2, 1863, No.14 (Damaged, loss at center margin, separated, Raid by CSS Alabama);Jan. 9, 1863, No.15 (Murfreesboro TN, Terrible Lose of Life, Sinking of the Ironclad Monitor, 2 officers and 38 men lost, Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln (Full text); 2. Jan. 16, 1863, No.16; 3. Jan. 23, 1863, No.17; 4. Jan. 30, 1863, No.18 (Gen. Grant in TN); 5. Feb. 6, 1863, No.19 (Naval Battles in Gulf of Mexico Galveston, War in Arkansas); 6. Mar. 6, 1863, No.23; 7. Mar. 20, 1863, No.25;8. Mar. 27, 1863, No.26;9. Apr. 3,

  • Publisher: S. Leader
  • Year: 1863
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: paperback

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