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Lot of 9 issues. The New South, J.H. Sears, Editor and Proprietor. each 4pp (9.5 x 13.5 in.). Vol. 2, No. 38, May 28, 1864: articles include the selection of delegates to the State Convention to represent the "Union People of South Carolina;" there is an extensive report on the movements of Grant and Sherman; nearly an entire page publishes several general orders issued by Brig. Gen. John Hatch Vol. 2, No. 39, June 4, 1864: with report of Gen. Sedgwick's death, a biography of Brig. Gen. Thomas Stevenson, Napoleon's actions at Jaffa. Vol. 2, No. 43, July 2, 1864. One article on the front page touts "Rebel Barbarity! Union Prisoners Placed Under Fire: ... In our last week's issue we published a list of officers - prisoners in rebel hands - who had been transferred to Charleston and placed under fire of our guns. We now place before our readers the official correspondence bearing on the subject, passed between Maj. Gen. Foster and the rebel general Sam Jones This barbarous treatment of Union prisoners byt he rebels in in perfect keeping with their former fiendish acts...." Vol. 2, No. 44, July 9, 1864: articles include a note on General Grant's character (not a drunken brute), the role of Atlanta in supplying war materiel, some court martial proceedings. A second article on Grant asserts: "The confidence of the army in Gen. Grant exceeds anything ever before witnessed in the filed. Every soldier religiously and solemnly believes that the lieutenant-general means, as they phrase it, to "mash the rebellion," and that he will do it...." The Palmetto Herald. S.W. Mason & Co., Port Royal, SC. (9.75 x 13.75 in.), each 4 pp. Vol. 1, No. 19, July 7, 1864. With "List of Rebel Prisoners to be Placed Under Rebel Fire," as retaliation for the endangering of Union officers as noted in the above paper. The list takes up nearly two whole columns of the front page. Extra, July 12, 1864 (2pp): Report of the destruction of the CSS Alabama by the USS Kearsarge. Vol. 1, No. 21, July 21, 1864: More on the Alabama vs. Kearsarge; Sherman within 4 miles of Atlanta Savannah Republican, J.E. Hayes, Editor and Proprietor, April 12, 1865. 4pp (14.5 x 23 in.) on heavy, coarse paper, more akin to butcher's paper than newsprint. Most of the news seems to be from April 3, most with New York and Washington by-lines. There are many reports of celebrations in northern cities in anticipation of the end of the war after the fall of Richmond. One article notes: "The End of the Rebellion / Grant's Combinations to Close it up. / Combined Movement by Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan and Hancock. / New York, April 3 - The Commercial's Washington despatch says it is believed in that city that the war is over, and that an understanding to that effect exists. the programme of Gen. Grant Anticipates all possible movements of the enemy. / He did not merely provide for the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg. He anticipated this contingency, and Lee will find his retreat cut off at all points. Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan and Hancock are closing upon the fragments of the rebellion.... Peace through was has been the object of the administration, and it seems to be now within reach." Nothing about Lee's surrender (although certainly it took weeks for the other major Confederate armies to surrender) three days before this paper was published, although there are many reports of peace negotiations and Lee's rumored intent to give up (reported April 3, also). Selma Daily Reporter, Vol. 4, No. 89. February 14, 1862. 4pp, (15.5 x 20.5 in.). On typical toned Southern paper. Many ads and classified notes, from lost wallets to bales of cotton wanted; a call for Alabamians to enlist, and more. News from the war includes: "The Situation" in Kentucky. / As we have heretofore explained, For Henry is on the Tennessee, and Fort Donelson is on the Cumberland, at points where these two rivers approach each other closely, and near the boundary line between Kentucky and Tennessee. The fall o