Capture of Jeff Davis imminent ...
NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 1865
- Hunt for Jefferson Davis
- Union soldiers marching home
- Abraham Lincoln murder trial
Among the column heads on the follow-up events to the Civil War are: "IMPORTANT PROCLAMATIONS" "The Belligerent Rights of the Rebels at the End" "All Nations Warned Against Harboring Their Privateers" "Restoration of Law in the State of Virginia" "The Flight Of Jeff Davis" "His Capture Probable" "Important Session of the Anti-Slavery Society" "Speeches of Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Harper, Geo. Thompson & Others".
Page 5 includes: "The Trial of the Assassins" which includes a document signed by the President: Andrew Johnson.
Eight pages, small piece from an upper corner of the front leaf, nice condition.
Item from last month's catalog - #369 - released for August, 2026
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