WEBVTT 00:01.266 --> 00:02.333 align:start >> THE CIVIL WAR, 00:02.333 --> 00:05.400 align:start THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG, AND WALLPAPER? 00:05.400 --> 00:07.233 align:start MARK, TELL ME WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE TODAY. 00:07.233 --> 00:09.766 align:start >> WE'RE LOOKING AT A NEWSPAPER FROM VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, 00:09.766 --> 00:13.400 align:start PRINTED IN 1863 IN THE HEAT OF THE BATTLE 00:13.400 --> 00:14.700 align:start AROUND VICKSBURG. 00:14.700 --> 00:15.800 align:start IT'S CALLED "THE DAILY CITIZEN." 00:15.800 --> 00:17.300 align:start THE EDITOR'S NAME IS SWORDS, 00:17.300 --> 00:21.233 align:start AND HE HAS JUST PUT INTO THE TYPE BED FOR PRINTING, 00:21.233 --> 00:22.866 align:start WHICH IS FULL OF SOME INFORMATION, 00:22.866 --> 00:25.766 align:start BUT LARGELY IT'S FULL OF TAUNTS 00:25.766 --> 00:27.133 align:start AND ATTACKS ON GENERAL GRANT, 00:27.133 --> 00:29.333 align:start WHO HAS SURROUNDED VICKSBURG AT THIS POINT. 00:29.333 --> 00:32.666 align:start >> AND JUST TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT, 00:32.666 --> 00:35.933 align:start VICKSBURG, CONFEDERATE CITY, WAS UNDER SIEGE BY THE UNION, 00:35.933 --> 00:37.733 align:start AND SUPPLIES WERE RUNNING LOW. 00:37.733 --> 00:38.900 align:start THEY WERE OUT OF FOOD. 00:38.900 --> 00:40.433 align:start THEY WERE OUT OF ALL KINDS OF SUPPLIES. 00:40.433 --> 00:41.866 align:start IS THAT CORRECT? >> THAT'S CORRECT. 00:41.866 --> 00:43.466 align:start SUPPLIES ARE SCARCE. 00:43.466 --> 00:47.366 align:start CERTAINLY OF GREAT SCARCITY IS NEWSPRINT. 00:47.366 --> 00:49.933 align:start SO NOT UNTYPICAL OF THE PERIOD, 00:49.933 --> 00:52.833 align:start THIS NEWSPAPER IS PRINTED ON WALLPAPER. 00:52.833 --> 00:54.333 align:start >> THAT'S TOTALLY AMAZING. 00:54.333 --> 00:57.900 align:start THEY PRINTED THEIR NEWSPAPER ON THE BACK SIDE OF WALLPAPER. 00:57.900 --> 00:59.133 align:start >> THAT'S CORRECT. 00:59.133 --> 01:00.866 align:start IT'S REFERRED TO AS THE WALLPAPER EDITION 01:00.866 --> 01:01.966 align:start OF "THE DAILY CITIZEN." 01:01.966 --> 01:03.533 align:start >> THERE'S SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING 01:03.533 --> 01:05.966 align:start AND VERY MODERN ABOUT THE FACT THAT PROPAGANDA, 01:05.966 --> 01:07.800 align:start OR WHAT WE WOULD NOW CALL SPIN, 01:07.800 --> 01:09.500 align:start WAS CONSIDERED SO IMPORTANT AT THE TIME 01:09.500 --> 01:11.330 align:start THAT THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE NEWSPRINT, 01:11.330 --> 01:12.666 align:start BUT THEY FOUND A WAY TO PUT THIS OUT. 01:12.666 --> 01:13.866 align:start >> WELL, IT'S MORALE BOOSTING, 01:13.866 --> 01:15.200 align:start BUT IT'S ALSO, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, 01:15.200 --> 01:16.800 align:start IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS THE WAY IN WHICH 01:16.800 --> 01:18.733 align:start YOU ANNOUNCE THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, 01:18.733 --> 01:22.500 align:start THE REPORTS OF THE BATTLES ELSEWHERE IN THE NATION 01:22.500 --> 01:23.666 align:start AS THE WAR IS GOING ON. 01:23.666 --> 01:25.366 align:start SO NEWS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 01:25.366 --> 01:27.633 align:start TO BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. 01:27.633 --> 01:29.466 align:start WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS PIECE IS, 01:29.466 --> 01:32.133 align:start IN THE MIDST OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT, 01:32.133 --> 01:34.133 align:start THESE YOUNG MEN-- LARGELY AT THIS POINT 01:34.133 --> 01:36.900 align:start IN THE UNION ARMY WHO FINALLY DO BREAK THROUGH-- 01:36.900 --> 01:39.666 align:start THEIR CHOICE IS TO, IN FACT, BREAK INTO 01:39.666 --> 01:42.000 align:start "THE DAILY CITIZEN" NEWSPAPER OFFICE, 01:42.000 --> 01:46.533 align:start WHERE THEY FIND THE TYPE SET FOR THE JULY 2ND EDITION. 01:46.533 --> 01:48.766 align:start AND THEIR CHOICE IS TO PRINT THAT EDITION 01:48.766 --> 01:50.433 align:start WITH ONE SMALL CHANGE. 01:50.433 --> 01:51.966 align:start IN THE BOTTOM CORNER, 01:51.966 --> 01:55.733 align:start IT ANNOUNCES THAT TWO DAYS BRING ABOUT A GREAT DEAL OF CHANGE. 01:55.733 --> 01:56.833 align:start >> CAN I HOLD IT? 01:56.833 --> 01:58.266 align:start >> SURE, JUST, YOU WANT TO HOLD IT 01:58.266 --> 01:59.766 align:start WITH A LITTLE BIT OF ATTENTION. 01:59.766 --> 02:01.233 align:start >> ABSOLUTELY, LIKE THAT. 02:01.233 --> 02:04.966 align:start AND AS YOU SAY, THE UNION FORCES TOOK OVER VICKSBURG 02:04.966 --> 02:07.866 align:start AND PRINTED THE NEWSPAPER COMPLETE AS THEY FOUND IT 02:07.866 --> 02:09.833 align:start WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE PARAGRAPH. 02:09.833 --> 02:11.400 align:start IS THAT CORRECT? >> THAT'S RIGHT. 02:11.400 --> 02:13.700 align:start >> "TWO DAYS BRING ABOUT GREAT CHANGES. 02:13.700 --> 02:16.133 align:start "THE BANNER OF THE UNION FLOATS OVER VICKSBURG. 02:16.133 --> 02:17.900 align:start "GENERAL GRANT HAS CAUGHT THE RABBIT. 02:17.900 --> 02:19.166 align:start "HE HAS DINED IN VICKSBURG, 02:19.166 --> 02:21.433 align:start AND HE DID BRING HIS DINNER WITH HIM." 02:21.433 --> 02:24.330 align:start >> AND THAT THEY URGE THE SOUTHERNERS TO A DIET 02:24.330 --> 02:26.166 align:start OF MULE MEAT AND FRICASSEED KITTEN. 02:26.166 --> 02:27.766 align:start >> AND THEY JUST LEFT THE REST OF THE PAPER 02:27.766 --> 02:29.000 align:start AND PRINTED IT AS THEY FOUND IT. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.133 align:start >> AND PRINTED IT UP. 02:30.133 --> 02:31.900 align:start THEY EVEN REFER TO IN THIS LAST PARAGRAPH 02:31.900 --> 02:34.766 align:start THAT THIS PAPER WILL BE IMPORTANT HEREAFTER 02:34.766 --> 02:38.233 align:start ONLY AS A SOUVENIR, AS A WALLPAPER KEEPSAKE. 02:38.233 --> 02:40.533 align:start >> THERE'S A FASCINATING SENSE OF TIME TRAVEL 02:40.533 --> 02:42.900 align:start THAT THEY ACTUALLY THOUGHT TO PRINT: 02:42.900 --> 02:45.866 align:start "THIS WILL BE VALUABLE HEREAFTER AS A CURIOSITY." 02:45.866 --> 02:47.133 align:start AND INDEED, HERE WE ARE, 02:47.133 --> 02:48.666 align:start AND WE'RE LOOKING AT IT AS A CURIOSITY. 02:48.666 --> 02:50.600 align:start >> EXACTLY. >> THEY GOT IT JUST RIGHT. 02:50.600 --> 02:52.000 align:start I'M MARK DIMUNATION, 02:52.000 --> 02:54.166 align:start CHIEF OF THE RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION 02:54.166 --> 02:55.866 align:start HERE AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.