The Port Gibson Reveille (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,298 issues from 1890 to 1922, published in Port Gibson, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
When lawyer Lemuel O. Bridewell began the weekly, Democratic, four-page Southern Reveille in August 1851, he declared that the Port Gibson, Mississippi newspaper would be ” … devoted to Politics, General Literature, Arts, Morality and News – Agricultural, Mechanical, and Commercial.” Bridewell unabashedly supported state rights as evident in the newspaper’s prospectus and its editorials. After a five-year run as the Port Gibson Reveille (1853?-57), the title reverted to its original name. It was during this second manifestation as the Southern Reveille that one-time Democratic Unionist, James Stayton Mason, became associated with the newspaper. In addition to the weekly version, Mason published the Daily Southern Reveille (1858-59?) and the Tri-weekly Southern Reveille (1859?-60?). The Reveille ceased in 1861 probably due to Mason’s service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Throughout the 1850s local coverage included news pertaining to southwest Mississippi, some marriage and death announcements, a few legal notices, and plenty of advertisements. Political commentary often focused on the increasing tension between the Northern and Southern states.
The Southern Reveille was not revived immediately after hostilities ceased; instead James Mason went to work for Francis Marschalk as editor of the Democratic Weekly Standard (1865-67). Shortly after the Weekly Standard became the Port Gibson Standard (1867-75), Mason left Marschalk’s employ. By 1876, there were no…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Port Gibson, Mississippi, 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