This article is about the newspaper that ceased publication in 1868. For the former Evening Post Publishing Company paper, see Evening Post Industries.
Special edition of the Charleston Mercury, announcing South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860.
The Charleston Mercury was a secessionist newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, founded by Henry L. Pinckney in 1819. He was its sole editor for fifteen years. It ceased publication with the Union Army occupation of Charleston in February 1865. After the American Civil War, publication resumed in November 1866 before the paper closed permanently two years later in 1868.[1]
^Heidler, David Stephen, and Jeanne T. Heidler (eds.) (2002). Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pages 407–408. ISBN 9780393047585.
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and national security, for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the CharlestonMercury. He is a former political gossip columnist writing "The Shadow Knows"...
secession". Rhett published his views through his newspaper, the CharlestonMercury. His son Alfred M. Rhett commanded a battery at Fort Moultrie at the...
that is enough to make it unutterably detestable." The editor of the CharlestonMercury expressed a similar view: "It seems to be generally agreed that the...
of America and UCLA Asian American Studies. "22 Apr 1835, 3 - The CharlestonMercury at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 3 March 2021. "Positively...
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quiet as a sucking dove." Some Southern publications, such as the CharlestonMercury, were critical of Lee's actions. On August 8, Lee offered his resignation...
court-appointed lawyer, Richard Yeadon, a slaveholder and editor of the CharlestonMercury, posted an insanity defense. Nicholas was convicted and sentenced...
living and working on the property. In 1850, Rhett advertised in The CharlestonMercury giving a fifty dollar reward for the apprehension and delivery to...
from Libby Prison", "Memoirs of Capt. Morton Tower", June 1870) The CharlestonMercury carried the story: At the base of the east wall, and about twenty...
he meant either in an ancestral sense is unknown. The anti-Lincoln CharlestonMercury described him as being "of ... the dirtiest complexion", as part of...
their children, Philip, Mary E., Isiah and John H were listed. In the CharlestonMercury account of the 1863 Burning of Bluffton, it is stated that the federal...
Wisconsin), August 26, 1859, citing the New York correspondent of the CharlestonMercury. Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee), April 26, 1859 Baxter...
honor to any man, and it created a great sensation. The pro-Southern CharlestonMercury of South Carolina reported: We have gathered some additional particulars...
1895. pp. 181–182 CharlestonMercury, December 21, 1860, reproduced in The Anderson Intelligencer, January 3, 1861, p. 2. The Mercury declared that by...
for his work as a journalist. As the Richmond correspondent of the CharlestonMercury during the Civil War, Bagby covered the politics of the war and made...
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