When the Civil War came to his newspaper office’s doorstep, a former Alabama governor’s son left his printing press behind and attempted to “strut to Guntersville” in 1862.  A group of Ohio infantrymen and a journaling army band member soon took over and began printing their own publication: the “Huntsville reveille”.  This short lived newspaper lasted only four editions, but its story is one of poetry and patriotism, sabotage and camaraderie, the powers of humor and fonts, and an oddly specific serialized love story.

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