The Commercial Appeal

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

The Commercial Appeal

Entry/Object ID

2016.046.047

Scope and Content

The Commercial Appeal is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. The paper's name comes from a 19th-century merger between two predecessors, the Memphis Commercial and the Appeal. On June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War, the presses and plates were loaded into a boxcar and moved to Grenada, Mississippi. The Appeal later journeyed to Jackson, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama and finally to Columbus, Georgia, where the plates were destroyed on April 16, 1865, only days before the Confederate surrender. This temporarily halted publication of what had been one of the major papers serving the Southern cause. The press was hidden and saved, and publication resumed in Memphis on November 5, 1865. Another early paper, The Avalanche, was incorporated later in the 19th century. The paper is properly The Commercial Appeal, and not the Memphis Commercial Appeal as it is often called, although the predecessor Appeal was formally the Memphis Daily Appeal. Holdings include one (1) issue - November 9, 1937

Collection

Newspaper Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Serial

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Items Details

Title

The Commercial Appear

Description

The Commercial Appeal is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. The paper's name comes from a 19th-century merger between two predecessors, the Memphis Commercial and the Appeal. On June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War, the presses and plates were loaded into a boxcar and moved to Grenada, Mississippi. The Appeal later journeyed to Jackson, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama and finally to Columbus, Georgia, where the plates were destroyed on April 16, 1865, only days before the Confederate surrender. This temporarily halted publication of what had been one of the major papers serving the Southern cause. The press was hidden and saved, and publication resumed in Memphis on November 5, 1865. Another early paper, The Avalanche, was incorporated later in the 19th century. The paper is properly The Commercial Appeal, and not the Memphis Commercial Appeal as it is often called, although the predecessor Appeal was formally the Memphis Daily Appeal. Holdings include one (1) issue - November 9, 1937

Container

Location JHS Archives, Room 204 Container Map Cabinet 8 Folder Drawer 2

Notes

Date: November 9, 1937 Public Access

Title

The Commercial Appeal

Description

The Commercial Appeal is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. The paper's name comes from a 19th-century merger between two predecessors, the Memphis Commercial and the Appeal. On June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War, the presses and plates were loaded into a boxcar and moved to Grenada, Mississippi. The Appeal later journeyed to Jackson, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama and finally to Columbus, Georgia, where the plates were destroyed on April 16, 1865, only days before the Confederate surrender. This temporarily halted publication of what had been one of the major papers serving the Southern cause. The press was hidden and saved, and publication resumed in Memphis on November 5, 1865. Another early paper, The Avalanche, was incorporated later in the 19th century. The paper is properly The Commercial Appeal, and not the Memphis Commercial Appeal as it is often called, although the predecessor Appeal was formally the Memphis Daily Appeal. Holdings include one (1) issue - November 9, 1937

Container

Location JHS Archives, Room 204 Container Map Cabinet 8 Folder Drawer 2

Notes

Date: November 9, 1937 Public Access