Harrison Eaton searching for brother John Eaton, of 1st Mississippi Colored Regiment who was last heard from at Vicksburg, MS.
The Daily Empire was a notorious Copperhead publication during the Civil War, well known for its anti-war and anti-abolition positions. It was once edited by Clement Laird Vallandingham in 1847, the Ohio democratic congressman jailed for violating General Order Number 38, which prohibited public expressions of support for the Confederacy. The editor of this paper at the time of Vallandingham's arrest was charged with deliberately promoting the Copperhead riot following the arrest, which targeted its rival Republican-backed paper, and the paper was temporarily suppressed. Even though the paper changed editors since that time, it is very strange that a person of color would be using this paper to search for his brother, a colored soldier, or that the paper would print the request.
Source: "About the Daily Empire (1865-1867)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077244/
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