Map and timeline of newspaper matches for "blockade runner" OR "blockade runners" OR "blockade running"
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Newspaper results for "blockade runner" OR "blockade runners" OR "blockade running"

US News Map searches Chronicling America, the Library of Congress collection of digitized American newspapers, and maps every matching page by where and when it was printed. Play the timeline to watch a word or a story move across the country.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

Sample results

24409 matching newspaper pages in total. New York, NY has the most hits (3160 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. The New York Herald — 1861-08-12, page 5

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … Hoboken in 1852 With some little alteration she could be made very serviceable the blockade. Running from the point up the bay, each vessel at anchor thoroughly scanned, with the hope …

  2. The New York Herald — 1861-08-18, page 1

  3. The New York Herald — 1861-08-19, page 8

  4. The Weekly Sun — 1861-09-07, page 2

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … Inc iGi"l' are still engaged in tortii, ing Mum AFFAIRS AT THE sOrTn. RuNNrNG THE BLOCKADE. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. The Orclousas La Cou,icy Of tho 2ltA saws, two schooners had ran …

  5. New-York Daily Tribune — 1861-10-07, page 4

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … refreshing GASES in a wide desert of thieves, peculntors and swindlers RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. RUNNING THE BLOCkADE. We suggested, fortnight ago, that the most effectual blockade of …

  6. New-York Daily Tribune — 1862-06-10, page 5

    … bay which the passive Rebels are not at present strong enough to resist openly. BLOCKADE RUNNERS AT GENOA. Davis H. Wheeler, Consul at (ienoa, writes that (ifteen or twenty vessels …

  7. New-York Daily Tribune — 1862-06-16, page 5

  8. New-York Daily Tribune — 1862-07-29, page 4

    … louel rauks i ‘by ecouseription, ure mainly vietnns, and should —Aubother British blockade-runner—the steamship be treated with toe u!most leniency; the GerTaba! Cain—was recently …

  9. New-York Daily Tribune — 1862-10-03, page 6

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … BLocKApiNo SQUAD Ron: Csltn, Exploit Of The Gunoo.t Winons Capture Of e. English Blockade Runner. THE RAFT lUkA. A Gallant Action sns brii! ant VI, -; sugeioi'y Of Western ilooa …

  10. The New York Herald — 1862-11-03, page 1

    … for the business in which she was en raged when captured. The Scotia is an eld blockade runner, but a cempsra lively new and very line vessel. Slio Is a paddle wheel steamer …

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