Volume X, Number 117, Friday, May 23, 1862, 2 pages on green rag paper, folio. This issue provides a transcript of Benjamin Butler's infamous General Orders No. 28 of May 15th wherein he warned that any lady of New Orleans insulting Union occupation forces would be "treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." Other news mentions Confederate promotions, a local casualty in Virginia and yellow fever in Savannah. An April classified insert soliciting payment of a "C. S. War tax" is still present. Though Federal troops received Natchez's surrender on May 12, the city was not permanently occupied until July 1863.

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Southern MS

Loss to left margin at the fold; lines of loss along top and bottom folds; minor stains. Overall good condition.