May 6, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi)
The Montgomery Mail says:
After diligent inquiry we are able to present the following list of paper mills now in operation within the limits of the Southern Confederacy:
Alabama 1–At Spring Hill in Mobile county.
Georgia 3–At Columbus, Marietta and Athens.
South Carolina 5–One at Greenville and four others
North Carolina 8–Lincolnton, Shelby, Fayetteville, Salem, Concord and three others at Raleigh, viz: Neuse river, Forrestville and Mantua.
Virginia 2–Both at Richmond.
Tennessee 1–At Knoxville.
It will be seen that there are twenty paper mills now in operation in the South, and there can be no doubt that they would be able to supply the newspaper demand if the materials for manufacturing paper could be obtained at reasonable rates.