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1862 · 41733 — Turnwold Putnam County Ga. 1862. Each issue a folio sheet folded to 8 pp. Each page 9-1/4" x12." Each number printed in three columns per page. No. 1 is browned. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Crandall does not record Numbers 4 and 5; but AAS which says The Countryman was "suspended intermittently" evidently owns them. Its first printing was March 18 1862. With the opening issue of this volume III Turner trumpets the "remarkable" success of The Countryman which has received a "universal acclaim of approbation" and has been financially successful. The articles cover an array of subjects including of course much on the War: Why the Hessians Enlist; the "worst provincialisms of the Yankees;" John Adams; observations on the War; the printing of The Countryman; poetry "The Old Plantation"; advertisements; President and leaders of the Confederate States; Iron; "Teaching Negroes to Read." <br /> This interesting Confederate weekly was printed at Turnwold Turner's Putnam County plantation probably the only wartime newspaper so printed. "Joel Chandler Harris was an apprentice for Joseph Addison Turner. In 1862 Turner decided to produce a newspaper from his home at Turnwold Plantation. In fact in a more-than-semi-autobiographical book Harris wrote called On the Plantation he explains that the printing office for The Countryman was established 'in an outhouse.'. . . As was the typical arrangement for the time Harris worked for Turner in exchange for clothing and boarding at the Turnwold Plantation for the four plus years he apprenticed there. As a printer's devil Harris was responsible for setting and inking the type for the paper on the hand-press individually placing the letters so they were spaced appropriately for printing" "Joel Chandler Harris and The Wren's Nest" December 3 2020 Blog site of American Writers Museum accessed May 01 2026. <br /> Crandall 5152. Not in Parrish & Willingham. Lomazow 687. unknown