The Daily Citizen. Vicksburg, Miss. Thursday, July 2, 1863. [Issued on July, 4, 1863]

(Civil War - Fall of Vicksburg) THE DAILY CITIZEN. VICKSBURG, MISS. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1863. Vicksburg, Miss: J. M. Swords,......Proprietor, July 2, 1863 [issued July 4, 1863]. FIRST EDITION. 19-3/4" x 12". Single sheet, four columns wide, printed on the back of a thin piece of wallpaper, with a pattern that includes pink and red flowers with green leaves, gathered in the center of a florette-shaped cream colored frame, creating a lace effect over a medium blue ground, being one of the four known wallpaper patterns that the genuine original issue of this newspaper was printed on. On July 4, 1863, the Confederacy surrendered at Vicksburg, the publisher of Vicksburg's newspaper fled the area, and the Union forces found the type of the Daily Citizen still standing. They replaced two-thirds of the last column with other matter already in type and added the following text: "Note July 4, 1863. Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has 'caught the rabbit:' he has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The 'Citizen' lives to see it. For the last time it appears on 'Wall-paper.' No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule-meat and fricassed kitten -- urge Southern warriors to such diet never-more. This is the last wall-paper edition, and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity." The newspaper conforms to each of the ten tests, as specified in the Library of Congress' Information Circular 3 (Revised 1967), The Library of Congress, Serial & Government Publications Division, that are used in determining the authenticity of this issue of the paper; scattered light staining and creasing with a minuscule loss at two intersecting folds. The condition of the newspaper is VERY GOOD -. EXCEEDINGLY RARE # 000962