The Republican journal., 1914-10-01
A Souvenir OF THE CIVIL WAR.
The Vicksbure, Miss, Daily Citizen Of
July 2, 1868.

The vicksbure, Miss. Daily Citizen Of
July 2, 1868.
Mrs. Harry w. Clark brought to Til
Journal Office last week al intsrestio
souvenir of the Civil War-a reproduce
ton of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen of
July 2, 1868, printed upon wall paper,
(Vicksburg fell after siege of AZ days
and was surrendered July 4, 1862 The
Citizen is single sheet, 10 by 10 inches,
with printing on one side, the other side
wall paper. J. W. Swords was the pro-
prietor. The editorial items in the first
column are mainly on the scarcity of
food. The editor returns thanks for
''Steak of Confederate beef" and says:
ut is sweet, savory and tender, and SO
long as we have mule left we are salts
fled our soldiers will be content to subsist
on it, The Citizen denounces those
who were said to have bread stuffs Sc
GREETED which they were doing out at ex-
tortionate prices, and says: IA rumor
has reached US that parties in our city
have been and are now selling. flour at
five dollars per pound-molasses at ten
dollars per gallon and corn at ten dollars
per bushel." This, of course, means in
Confederate currency. The Citizen also
refers to the ''lax discipline of some of
our company officers in allowing their
men to prowl around. day and night and
purloin fruit, vegetables, chickens, etc..
from our denizens, and, in a majority of
cases, from those whose chief subsst.
ence is derived tnerefrom," and it tells
of one citizen who in defending his prop
erty "wounded one of two soldiers and
deprived the other of his life." An arti-
Gle on Gen. Robert E. Lees ''re-enter-
ing Maryland, holding Hagerstown,
threatening Washington city and within
a few miles of Baltimore" concludes
as follows:
Today Maryland is ours, tomorrow
Pennsylvania will be, and the next day
Ohio-now midway, like Mohammed's
coffin fall
Success and glory to our armies! God
and right are with US.
About column is devoted to "Y ankee
News from All Points," and in view of
what followed this paragraph is of inter-
est.
On DIT. That the great Ulysses
the Yankee Generalissimo surnamed
Grant-has expressed his intention of
dining IN Vicksburg on Saturday next,
and celebrating the 4th of July by a
grand dinner and so forth. When asked if
he would invite Gen. 10. johnson to join,
he said, "No, for fear there would be row
at the table," Ulysses must get into
the city before he dimes in it. The way
to cook rabbit is, ''frst catch the rab-
bit, &c."
Well, Grant ''caught the rabbit and
was in Vicksburg July 4tb, and this edi-
ton of the Citizen had not gone to press
when the city surrendered, as explained
in the following note at the bottom of
the last column:
July 4. 1868.
Two days brings about great changes.
The banner of the Union floats over
Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has caught the
rabbit; he has dined in Vicksburg, and
he did bring his dinner with him. The
''Citizen" lives to see it. For the last
time it appears on wall paper. No
more will it eulogize the luxury of mule
meat and fricassed hen-urge Southern
warriors to such diet never more. This
is the last wall paper Citizen, and is, ex~
cepting this note, from the types as We
found them. Printer-soldiers set this
note and work the FORM, 1t will be
valuable hereafter as curiosity.