The Nashville Daily Union (Nashville, Tenn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,155 issues from 1862 to 1866, published in Nashville, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.
Many Tennessee newspapers suspended publication after the fall of Fort Donelson in February 1862. The Daily Nashville Union, however, was one of the few that were established during– and that survived–the war. An anonymous group, An Association of Printers, launched the paper from the offices of the Daily Nashville Patriot on April 10, 1862. Two months later, on June 19, the newspaper changed its name to the Nashville Daily Union.
The newspaper was edited by S.C. Mercer. Mercer had been recommended to Governor Andrew Johnson as an editor of a Unionist newspaper. After little more than a week, Johnson, pleased with Mercer’s publication, wrote to William H. Seward, Secretary of State, requesting government patronage for the paper: “The Nashville Union, a decidedly loyal newspaper, and zealous in its labors for the restoration of the Union, has been established here within the past ten days. . . . A sound union paper at this point cannot fail to exert great influence for good in Tennessee and indeed states south of us.” The request was granted, and by September 1863, the Federal government had provided more than $800 to the newspaper for the printing of official notices and advertisements.
Like many newspapers during the Civil War, the Nashville Daily Union made use of the technological advances in telegraphic communications. Its “By Telegraph” column provided on-the-spot news sent by wire; “Midnight Dispatches” reported the latest from the front lines, including losses and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress