Thursday, March 25, 2010

So soon as Memphis is taken by the Federal forces . . .

. . . one of their first acts should be to destroy the vile secession offices of the Appeal and Avalanche and hang their editors. Two more traitorous sheets do not exist in the whole Southern Conthieveracy.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1862, p. 1

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