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1865 newspaper GALVESTON Texas CAPTURED BY UNION NAVAL FORCES at Civil War's End
1865 newspaper GALVESTON Texas CAPTURED BY UNION NAVAL FORCES at Civil War's End
1865 newspaper GALVESTON Texas CAPTURED BY UNION NAVAL FORCES at Civil War's End
1865 newspaper GALVESTON Texas CAPTURED BY UNION NAVAL FORCES at Civil War's End

1865 newspaper GALVESTON Texas CAPTURED BY UNION NAVAL FORCES at Civil War's End

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    1865 Civil War newspaper GALVESTON Texas is CAPTURED BY UNION NAVAL FORCES at the end of the Civil War -
    inv # 6H-210
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    SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL 4-page Civil War NEWSPAPER, the
    Worcester Palladium
    (MA) dated June 28, 1865.
    This newspaper contains prominent inside page "stacked" headlines and a long detailed account of the
    SURRENDER of the Confederate port of GALVESTON, Texas by Union naval forces
    .
    In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, Galveston was the largest city in Texas and the major seaport for the state. The city’s population stood at 7,207, about 1,200 of whom were slaves. Galveston was a growing city; forty percent of her non-slave population was born outside the United States. Across the island’s wharves in 1860 passed 194,000 bales of cotton, three-quarters of the total shipped from all Texas ports that year. The editor of the Galveston News -- perhaps not an entirely objective judge of the matter -- estimated that Galveston’s commerce was growing at the astonishing rate of 50% annually.
    The idea of secession did not initially enjoy wide support among Galvestonians, but it gained popularity after the election of Abraham Lincoln. In a statewide vote on secession on February 23, 1861, Galvestonians supported breaking with the Union by a landslide, 765 to 33.
    The Federal blockade of Galveston began on July 2, 1861 with the arrival of U.S.S. South Carolina. The screw-propelled steamer made several quick captures of sailing vessels trying to break new blockade, but these were mostly small, worthless craft. Blockade running was, at that stage of the war, a very amateur and disorganized affair.
    Despite the patriotic fervor for the Southern cause, though, many people came to recognize that Galveston would be difficult to defend against an expected Union attack. Word got out that the Confederate military thought the city indefensible, and it was reported that the governor had suggested the city be burned rather than fall into Union hands intact. Many Galvestonians left the island for Houston and other cities inland, not to return until 1865.
    Despite the excitement caused by the regular arrival and departure of the blockade runners, conditions continued to deteriorate in Galveston. An attempt at mass desertion by nearly three hundred Confederate troops was narrowly averted by the personal intervention of Hawes’ successor in command of the island, Colonel Ashbel Smith. The civilian populace was so desperate that on May 24, 1865 -- the same morning Denbigh was boarded and burned by the Federals -- when the runner Lark entered the harbor, she was swarmed by an unruly mob that stripped the vessel of everything of value.
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