Box 121

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Daily Citizen was edited and published at Vicksburg, Mississippi, by J.M. Swords. When, like several other Southern newspapers of the Civil War period, its stock of newsprint paper was exhausted, the publisher resorted to using wallpaper. On this substitute he printed the following known issues: June 16, 18, 20, 27, 30, and July 2, 1863. Each was a single sheet, four columns wide, printed on the back of the wallpaper. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered, the...