I feel a little bit bad for this week's historical marker. I've seen markers suffer from unfortunate placement before, but this one, sequestered in the alley between Metro 67 and the Madison Hotel on Madison is probably on of the saddest. The marker commemorates the Memphis Daily Appeal, a newspaper that was published in Memphis during the Civil War. As the marker will tell you, the  paper had a long and mobile history: "From this spot press and type of the Appeal were loaded on a freight car at Main & Madison in early morning, June 6, 1862, just before a naval battle. This paper kept the journalistic flag of the Confederacy flying from Grenada, Miss., then Jackson, Meridian, Atlanta and Montgomery until April 6, 1865 when U.S. troops destroyed the type at Columbus, Ga. The press was hidden and used here again, Nov. 5 1865." Though the Daily Appeal's type was ultimately destroyed, the historical marker lives on.