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Davis involved in the plot to kill Lincoln...
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Davis involved in the plot to kill Lincoln...

Item # 710614 ·

NEW YORK TIMES, May 23, 1865  The front page has: "Conduct of The War" "The Committee Close Their Long Investigation" "Gen. Meade a Very Good Officer, but Too Slow & Easy" "Facts About the Disastrous Red River Expedition" and more.
Page 5 has: Reported Assassination of the Rebel General Kirby Smith" "Capture of Ex-Gov. Isham Harris of Tennessee" "Negro Plot to Kill Paroled Rebel Prisoners at Memphis" "Act to be in Retaliation for the Fort Pillow Massacre" "A Conflict & the Negroes Soon Subdued".
The back page has: "Trial Of The Assassins" "Further Evidence of the Guilt of the Prisoners" "A Letter Implicating Davis in Knowledge of the Plot" "Lincoln Was to Have Been Killed Last November" & more.
Eight pages, nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #371 - released for October, 2026

Category: Post-Civil War
Price
$40
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.