The State Gazette, April 21, 1866 — A Dyer County Newspaper Transcription

This page preserves a transcription of the April 21, 1866 issue of The State Gazette, a weekly newspaper that began publishing in Dyersburg, Tennessee in 1865. This particular issue, Volume 1, Number 21, is one of the earliest documented editions of the paper still referenced today.

The State Gazette was published by Tom W. Neal and Jere Martin at its founding, and has served Dyersburg and Northwest Tennessee continuously since 1865, making it one of the longer-running newspapers in this region. The paper still operates today, giving this 1866 transcription an unusually direct connection to a living publication rather than a defunct one.

An 1866 issue this early in the newspaper's run captures Dyer County only a year removed from the Civil War's end, a period when regional news coverage was still reestablishing itself across West Tennessee. This transcription sits alongside the broader newspaper archive covered on this section's newspapers index page.