April 5, 2024
1861 Sacramento California newspaper Civil War begins!
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Ultra rare one page Sacramento California Daily Union newspaper, Monday April 22, 1861. The only way to get news to California in 1861 was by Pony Express, as t was no transcontinental telegraph or railroad lines through the wild west. It took ten days of round the clock riding through hostile Indian territory, over deserts and mountains to deliver the news that Fort Sumpter was under seige, signalling the start of the Civil War (on April 12, 1861)!! Sacramento was the end point of the Pony Express, and also the supply town and depot for the gold rush towns and gold mines in the Sierras. T is mining news, robberies and murders. Interestingly, the Pony Express operated for less than 2 years (google it). The Sacramento Union was a high quality gold rush-era newspaper with mostly original articles, expensive at 10 cents per issue (eastern papers were 1 or 2 cents). During the Civil War they had their own reporters in Washington, and after the war they hired young Mark Twain as a feature writer.......................Western papers before 1900 are rare, and California Civil War papers are rarer. T are rips, stains and some missing paper as shown, but does not affect text, only ads. Paper is supple, white and not at all fragile. I guarantee it is original. Very historic and important issue of this early California newspaper (Google Sacramento
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