Online Newspapers

[PenPusher]

Noticed that the Richmond Dispatch is now online at http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr

Also I know that the New Orleans Bee is available in Adobe format at:-
http://www.jefferson.lib.la.us/genea...OrleansBee.htm , unfortunately there is no indexing and some of the scans are poor but there is some interesting early war stuff to read.

Some Missouri newspaper are available at:- http://newspapers.umsystem.edu/archi...Missouri&BP=OK , these are indexed but not particularly well and there is little of the Civil War period.

Is anyone aware of any other online newspapers?

Alan Thrower
Company of Military Historians

Alan, please sign all posts with your full name. You can do so in your User CP under Auto Signature - Mike Chapman

[dusty27]

Check out our "Links" above.

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...links&catid=11

[ephraim_zook]

Dusty,

Clicking the link yields this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/authent/public_html/forum/local_links.php on line 66

Ron Myzie

[TGreene]

Alan,
Thanks for posting the links. In searching through the Richmond Daily Dispatch I even found an ad out for deserters that listed a family member of mine and a description. I've also found a number of other good information from it through the search function.

To answer the question of other newspapers online, I know the New York Times is online at http://nyt.ulib.org/index.cgi. Another great site is the Civil War Richmond site at www.mdgorman.com which has a number of articles from Richmond papers transcribed. Not all have been done, but hopefully that will come. I'm sure there are others as well.

Tim Greene

[dusty27]

Ron, it will be back

[Richmond Depot]

Sir,

Thank you for sharing this link. My own family has had some gaps in the Geneaology which you have helped clear up. Henry Hanes, of the 4th Va. Cav. was killed in early 1861 in a minor skirmish near Alexandria Va. So early in fact that he is not on the roster for the 4th published in the Va. Regtl. series. This story was lost except for two existing letters in the VHS in Richmond and the Newspaper articles have helped shed alot of light on what happend that July day near Alexandria.

Again, thank you very much.

As a follow up...if searching the paper online, try key word searches for Cassimere and Jeans. I have been having a blast with the clothing descriptions of the fabrics available from the dry goods firms.

[styler]

Only a couple with issues from the period at this link, but some interesting things in them and they add papers and issues all the time:
http://news.nnyln.net/

[LindaTrent]

In my favorites I have the following newspapers:

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/

The New York Times http://www.nyt.ulib.org/

The Newark, Ohio Advocate http://www.newarksattic.com/1860.html (it's not the complete paper, but is transcribed by topic.

The Northern New York project http://news.nnyln.net/

And don't forget the most valuable of valuable sites Vicki Betts' own transcriptions of numerous period newspapers at:
http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm

Oops, and the "Valley of the Shadow" project which has newspapers from Augusta County, VA *Republican Vindicator* & *Staunton Spectator* and Franklin county, PA *Franklin Repository* & *Valley Spirit*

If you're looking for information prior to a specific event and want to read some good magazines, don't forget about the likes of Debows Review and the Methodist Episcopal North's publication (widely read) Ladies' Repository (not just for ladies ) and the Southern Literary Messenger

There's also the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Monthly, Putnam's, Scientific American, North American Review, and many many others available both at the UMich and Cornell sites. Oops, I just realized this link also takes you to the ORs online.

And don't think that these all had a really limited circulation, because I found that our own "News Depot" here in Gallipolis, Ohio carried "Cincinnati dailies, New York weeklies, Harper's, Atlantic, and all the various Magazines, always on hand."

I love to read some of the magazines that went to press a month or two before the date of my next event as that helps to give me interesting things to discuss during an event. And yes, even soldiers would get newspapers and magazines from home, based upon my reading of soldiers letters (both from the homefront and the front), and letters to the editor, etc.

Well, this should keep you busy for a while.

Linda.