^#1959 ^Lot 2020 North Carolina Daily Journal

Original issue of the North Carolina Daily Journal, four pages, 16.5 x 21.5, May 16, 1861. Features include: Major W.H.C. Whiting, C.S.A. serving as the A.I.G., State of North Carolina; An Act to Raise an Additional Military Force for the War Adopted by the Confederate Congress; An Act Vesting Certain Powers in the Postmaster General, C.S.A; Roman Catholicism and Slavery to be Destroyed; From Mahan's Tactics on Field Fortifications—the Effect of Musketry and Artillery, and the Means of Directing Their Fire to Obtain the Best Results; Target Practice of Small Arms; Table of Effects of Fire on a Target; Numerous Military Recruits Wanted Advertisements, Military Orders, Agricultural and Manufacturing ads, Railroad and Transportation ads, Ad for a publication with sketches of the Confederate victory at Fort Sumter, Negroes For Sale ad, Plantation ads,Military Goods ads, and other early war news. Light toning, a tear to the right edge, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition.