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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06590 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of miscellaneous Civil War-era newspapers |
| Title | Louisville courier--extra. [no volume or number information (August 3, 1861)] |
| Date | 3 August 1861 |
| Author | Haldeman, Walter Newman (1821-1902) |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Pro-Confederate newspaper. Front page is dominated by a speech on executive usurpation by Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge on 16 July 1861. List of taxes passed by the House of Representatives. A scathing column critical of the "Abolitionism and Niggerism of the Editor of the Journal." Page 2 contains a copy of the Confederate Constitution, divided into 7 articles. Page 2 is dominated by a 4.5 column printing of a speech on the loan bill by Ohio Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham from 10 July 1861. |
| Subjects | Confederate Constitution Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Government and Civics Taxes or Taxation Abolition African American History Slavery Finance Congress |
| Place written | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition; Banking & Economics; African Americans |
| 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 |