Newspaper Article Reprints by Region

The Eve of War

Fall 1859–Spring 1861

1860 Census and Summaries

New York supplied the most articles for reprinting for both Augusta and Franklin editors. The Augusta newspapers relied heavily on Richmond for news stories. Other southern cities papers, such as the Charleston Mercury for example, supplied only a handful of stories to these editors. In the case of Charleston, Staunton’s Whig editor reprinted just six stories and Chambersburg’s editors also picked up six stories total.

Place	Rep. Vindicator	Staunton Spectator	Franklin Repository	Valley Spirit
Southern Origin Totals	73	156	72	73
Richmond Totals	32	61	23	17
Baltimore Totals	2	13	17	9
Louisville Totals	0	0	4	13
Lynchburg Totals	4	13	0	0
Northern Origin Totals	64	106	180	308
New York Totals	47	77	57	159
Philadelphia Totals	2	8	31	28
Harrisburg Totals	0	0	15	35
Cincinnati Totals	0	6	2	11

Data are derived from Katherine Pierce, “Networks of Disunion” (unpublished paper). Pierce surveyed 1,100 newspaper articles from the Valley of the Shadow Project between 1857 and 1865 in all four of the project’s newspapers.