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Book Review
| The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run. By B. G. Ellis. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003. xlvi, 677 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-86554-764-5.)
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| When Memphis fell to Union troops on June 6, 1862, the Memphis Daily Appeala leading pro-Confederacy newspaperwas out of reach. By June 9, the Appeal published its first issue in Grenada, Mississippi. The "moving Appeal" became a legendary newspaper after its flight from Memphis to publish successively in Grenada and Jackson, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama, before Union forces closed in on the feisty paper near war's end. |
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