This post was written by Kerry Huller, a Digital Conversion Specialist in the Library’s Serial and Government Publications Division.
It’s Sunday morning, April 13, 1862, and as a loyal Memphis Daily Appeal reader, you pick up that day’s paper. You’re eager to find out what is happening on the frontlines of the escalating war between the North and South. On this particular day, after reading through the issue, you discover that the Confederate Army is still in control of the battlefield at Shiloh in Tennessee. And shockingly, poisoned balls and poisoned quinine, smuggled in by the Federals, had been found.
The New York Herald reported Wednesday morning, April 9, 1862 that