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Collection Reference Number GLC06107.17
From Archive Folder Collection of Union Occupation Newspapers 
Title Port Hudson Freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 14, 1863)]
Date 14 July 1863
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Reports on the Surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Printed by Union troops the day Port Hudson was captured. States that Mrs. Vallandingham had gone insane but her "nervous system was severely shocked." Also includes a very moving report from a hospital. Brown necessity paper.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Battle of Vicksburg  Battle of Port Hudson  Battle  Confederate States of America  Hospital  Printing  Copperheads  Mental Health  Women's History  Injury or Wound  
Place written Port Hudson, Louisiana
Theme The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Women in American History
Sub-collection American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945