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Excerpt from A Rebel Newspaper's War Story: Being a Narrative of the War History of the Memphis Appeal On the morning of Friday, June 6, 1862, while the gunboat fight was raging hotly in front of the city, The Memphis Appeal, being what was termed a "rebel sheet," left Memphis and went to the pleasant little town of Grenada, Miss. The press and other machinery, its two new "dresses" of type and its working force accompanied it, and on the following Monday, June 9, 1862, The Memphis Appeal was once more issued, this time as an afternoon paper, bearing the Grenada date line. This issue contains a full account of the evacuation of Corinth some ten days previously, and also of the fall of Memphis and the destruction of the Confederate fleet. Exchanges are requested to direct their papers to Grenada for the future, and in an address "To Our Readers," the editor says: "The occupation of Memphis by the Federal forces has convinced us of the necessity of removing our office of publication to Grenada, Miss. In taking this step our principal motive has been to continue in a position wherein we may be able to render official service to the cause we advocate, hereafter as heretofore, and in accomplishing this, should we succeed, we will find our greatest reward. Our fate is indissolubly connected with that of the Confederacy. Our political action in the past is well understood. We cannot desert the one nor change as to the other. Our political ideas were not formed to be cast aside under any exigency that can possibly happen; and so long as two or three states are gathered together in the name of the Confederate States, so long will we be found advocating, as zealously as ever, a continued resistance to the tyranny which a haughty foe are endeavoring to establish over us. The Appeal will not swerve from its course, come what will, no matter how great the sacrifices we may find it necessary to make. We have an abiding faith in the success of the South." And if this faith ever weakened, or doubt ever entered, not a line was there ever in the paper to show it. Through all the long struggle, with its hardships and frequent flights, with all the attendant vicissitudes and calamities, the editorial utterances breathed a hopeful spirit that the worst disasters of the war never once chilled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.