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news-slips from a proof-press. Again the paper, finding it neces- sary to make a change, went to Macon, but made a stop at Columbus on the way. At Macon the press, hid in a safe place, was not discovered until after General Sherman had issued an order that the destruction of both public and private property must cease, but the proof -press, and the few cases of type which had been left behind in Columbus were, after being pied, de- stroyed by the order of Major-General Wilson. Thus for three years The Memphis Appeal was printed away from its home city, but immediately after Appomattox the paper returned to Memphis, where it brought out its first issue November 5, 1865.

Another peripatetic newspaper of the South was The Chatta- nooga Rebel, often spoken of as the organ of the Army of Tennes- see. A link in Southern Journalism between the ante-bellum papers and those of the period devoted to the reconstruction, it made its first appearance in August, 1862, being published by F. M. Paul, with the assistance of John C. Burch. An early editor was Henry Watterson, who later achieved still greater fame as the editor of The Louisville Courier- Journal. After the First Manassas, Watterson, giving up his Washington corres- pondence, came to Nashville, where he joined the staff of The Republican Banner. Upon the suspension of that newspaper and the fall of the city, Watterson joined the Confederate army as a voluntary aide. It was while serving in this capacity that he met the publisher of The Rebel, who persuaded him that he could serve the South better with his pen than in any other way. Neither Paul nor Watterson approved of the conduct of Bragg, who was in control of the army. The publisher, however, thought that Bragg's official position entitled him to editorial immunity from The Rebel. Watterson, however, thought otherwise, and later, during the absence of the publisher in North Carolina, wrote one of his typical editorials in which he attacked the commander. For this "mutiny" the punishment was prompt; the next day General Bragg issued an official order forbidding the circulation of The Rebel within the Confederate lines. Associated with Wat- terson on The Rebel was Albert Roberts, who had worked with the former on The Republican Banner. After the suspensi