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Printed the day before Lee surrendered to Grant...
Printed the day before Lee surrendered to Grant...
Item # 172874
April 08, 1865
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, April 8, 1865 This issue was printed just one day prior to the surrender of Robert E. Lee to U.S. Grant at Appomattox.
The front page shows the: "Raising the Stars & Stripes Over the Capitol at Columbia, South Carolina" as well as a print of: "The Fifteenth Corps Crossing the South Edisto". Prints inside include a: "Map of the Campaign Against Richmond" "Colonel O. M. Poe" "Brigadier-General H. A. Barnum" "Charge of the First Alabama & Fifth Kentucky Under Colonel Spencer, at White Pond" "Captain Ainsworth Moving Up Cape Fear River to Open Communication with Sherman" "Lt. Grinnell & Ensign Colby Bearing Dispatches to General Sherman" "Ruins of the Norfolk Navy Yard" "the 'Richmond' Rescuing the Crew of the 'Enterprise' ".
There are two full page prints: "Charge of Weaver's Brigade Across the Salkhatchie, South Carolina" and "The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina". Additional smaller prints include: "Scenes In the Recent Disastrous Freshets" which has4 prints taking a full page showing: "The Flood in Rochester..." "Flood in Mound City, Illinois..." "Happy Hollow, Near Mound City...". Other prints include: "Monevideo, the Capital of Uruguay, South America" "Leandro Gomez" "Leaving Gomez's Headquarters, Paysandu" "The Turret Fort, Paysandu".
The back page has a cartoon: "The Hygiene of New York City". Complete in 16 pages.
Category: The Civil War