The Tri-Weekly Telegraph. Vol. XXIX, No. 92. Whole No. 3747.
Houston, TX: October 21, 1863. Broadsheet, printed in five columns, on blue paper. Old folds, some chipping along fold lines and at cross folds, costing a handful of words, partial separation along central vertical cross fold, some foxing. Fair condition. Item #13007
An interesting relic of the Texas Confederacy, being the October 21, 1863 issue of the Tri-Weekly Telegraph, printed in Houston during the Civil War. As such, the issue is chock full of war news, with several general orders printed in the first two columns on the front page and the third column taken up almost entirely with "Still Later News" of happenings related to the war. Interestingly, the fourth column prints news from a public meeting at a "Barbecue in Huntsville," in which a group of citizens called for a resolution banning substitutes in the Confederate Army. A particularly impactful notice in the second column is unrelated to the war, but emblematic of the defiance of the Confederate States, announcing the "Auction Sale" of several named slaves in Navasota, including George, his wife Lucy, five children, a seamstress named Henrietta, and her unnamed seven-year-old son. Because of the ongoing blockade of the Gulf of MEXICO, the paper is printed on blue-green rag paper. Confederate Texas newspapers are scarce in the market.
Price: $550