CAROLINA WATCHMAN. Edited by J. J. Bruner

Salisbury, NC: The editor, 1862. Vol. XIX, No. 60 [this issue only]. Double-folio. (2) pp. Includes war related items, including speculation on the destination of the Burnside expedition, taken from articles in the New York Times and Wilmington Journal [Burnside would take Roanoke Island a week later], news of General Zollicoffer’s death in action at Mills Springs in Kentucky, the mistreatment of former enslaved persons at Fortress Monroe, a chronology of the first year of the war, etc. Local new included a note on the shooting death of a runaway enslaved person in Alamance County. This issue apparently not held at North Carolina or American Antiquarian Society. Removed from a bound volume, but very good. Item #68467

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