Item 98091 - Thomas Jefferson Burgess, Belfast, ca.1870, ca. 1870
- Item 98091 - Thomas Jefferson Burgess, Belfast, ca.1870, ca. 1870
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Image Info Thomas Jefferson Burgess was a native of Belfast and a printer by trade. During the Civil War years, he was drafted, but exempted from service due to a bad hip. In 1862, Burgess published the Evening Bulletin, which was a daily broadsheet containing all the evening telegraph dispatches from the war.
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Before the war, Burgess entered into business with his brother, George Washington Burgess, and together they established the Progressive Age newspaper, a competitor to the Republican Journal.