The Camden Journal (Camden, S.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
430 issues from 1836 to 1851, published in Camden, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Camden Journal (1826-91) captured life in the community of Camden, South Carolina, in times of affluence, prosperity, desolation, and recovery. Significant events covered by the newspaper included: the establishment of the DeKalb Rifle Guards, a local militia group company that later fought with the Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican-American War, in 1840; the arrival of the South Carolina Railroad in 1848; and the destruction and subsequent occupation of Camden by Union Army soldiers in 1865.
Thomas William Pegues first established The Camden Journal in January 1826. An anecdotal story has it that Pegues had intended to accept a printing job in Charleston, but when he learned he would have to work on Sundays, he started the Journal instead. In 1834, Pegues merged the Journal with the Sumter The Southern Whig and re-launched the paper as The Camden Journal and Southern Whig.
On January 23, 1836, The Camden Journal and Southern Whig, under the ownership of Robert McKnight, reverted back to its original name. A year later, Thomas Pegues moved to Alabama. The Camden Journal suspended publication, and its press and subscription list were sold to the Camden Commercial Courier. By 1839, the Commercial Courier had failed and Pegues had returned to Camden, ready to start afresh. On November 27, 1839, the following notice appeared in the Charleston Courier : “Ample time has elapsed since the suspension of its publication, to enable the community to judge whether a newspaper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Camden, South Carolina, 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