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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08496.02 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of miscellaneous Civil War-era newspapers |
| Title | Southern cultivator [Vol. 19, no. 6 (June 1861)] |
| Date | June 1861 |
| Author | Redmond, Dennis (fl. 1856-1865) |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Co-edited with C.W. Howard. Consists of 30 pages for the magazine with 32 pages of advertisements -- 16 pages before getting to the magazine and 16 pages after the magazine. This issue is paginated 170-200. Tagline below masthead says "Devoted Exclusively to Southern Agriculture, Horticulture, Plantation and Domestic Economy Manufactures, and the Mechanic Arts." Advertisements for various farm implements (mostly plows and cotton gins), manure, land, and insurance -- also including one full page ad for a piano. Front page has an essay on the plantation economy of the South. Update on the executive committee meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. Many letters to the editors: letter from Texas requesting help with a mysterious insect attacking vegetables and melons, a letter on sheep raising in the wire-grass section of Georgia, a letter on the prospects of direct trade in the South, etc. One letter replying to an article titled "Serfs, not Slaves," in the April issue says it "is decidedly the best written, the most sensible, and the best definition of the relationship that exists between us and our laborers, that I have ever read upon the slavery question!" Other letters on: Cotswold sheep, soluble phosphated Peruvian guano, and the rolling and soaking of seeds, etc. Article on politics titled "Our Destiny" on page 181-182. Contains a section on horticulture, including information on grapes and garden walks. Short column titled "Campaigning Axioms," on page 194. Recipes on page 199-200. Original stab-stich binding. Stain at bottom of each page of the magazine. |
| Subjects | Science and Technology Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Music Commerce Economics Slavery African American History Politics |
| Place written | Augusta, Georgia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Agriculture; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Related documents | Blank subscribers list for the Southern Cultivator Business envelope sent to William Birnie, Esq. Dennis Redmond to William Birnie about his Southern Cultivator subscription |