The Daily Citizen. Vicksburg, Miss. Thursday, July 2, 1863. [Issued on July, 4, 1863]

(Civil War - Fall of Vicksburg) THE DAILY CITIZEN. VICKSBURG, MISS. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1863. Vicksburg, Miss: J. M. Swords,......Proprietor, July 2, 1863 [issued July 4, 1863]. FIRST EDITION. 19-3/4" x 12". Single sheet, four columns wide, printed on the back of a thin piece of wallpaper, with a pattern that includes pink and red flowers with green leaves, gathered in the center of a florette-shaped cream colored frame, creating a lace effect over a medium blue ground, being one of the four known wallpaper patterns that the genuine original issue of this newspaper was printed on. On July 4, 1863, the Confederacy surrendered at Vicksburg, the publisher of Vicksburg's newspaper fled the area, and the Union forces found the type of the Daily Citizen still standing. They replaced two-thirds of the last column with other matter already in type and added the following text: "Note July 4, 1863. Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has 'c