Title
The Old Guard, a Monthly Journal; Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787
Coverage
New York
Publisher
C. Chauncey Burr
Date
July 1862
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
Burr’s Old Guard was the only consistently anti-Lincoln (Copperheads) magazine regularly published in the North during the Civil War, defending slavery and the right of secession. It was suppressed after three issues, but returned with even greater intensity in January 1863, illustrated with portraits of prominent anti-war politicians and full of vitriol directed at Lincoln and his followers.*