Closing days of the Civil War... One of Lincoln's last documents...
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, April 11, 1865 Among the front page column heads from the closing days of the Civil War: "From General Sherman" "He Cuts The Danville Road!" "Reported Occupation of Raleigh" "The Potomac Army" "Gen. Sheridan's Captures" "Further Incidents of the Pursuit of Lee" and much more.
Page 5 contains a: "Proclamation By the President - Closing of Southern Ports" signed in type by: Abraham Lincoln, presumably one of the last documents he would sign prior to his assassination 3 days later.
Eight pages, nice condition.
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