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Newspapers shut down by Lincoln

Does anyone have a link to a list of the newspapers shut down by the Lincoln administration? Or a list of the newspapermen who were arrested and jailed. Some claim as many as 300 newspapers shut down.

"You will take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce . . . and prohibit any further publication thereof . . . You are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison . . . The editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforementioned newspapers. (Order of Abraham Lincoln to General John Dix, May 18, 1864)"

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