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Nebraska to join the Union... Jeff Davis's complicity in the Lincoln assassination...



Item # 691201

July 28, 1866

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, July 28, 1866  

* Nebraska Statehood
* Jefferson Davis


The front page has much reporting from: "Washington" with a stack of column heads, including: "Nebraska Admitted into the Union". It would formally become a state on March 1, 1867.
Page 4 has: "JEFFERSON DAVIS" "Investigation of the Charge of His Complicity in the Assassination" "His Responsibility for the Treatment of Union Prisoners" "A Record of J. Wilkes Booth in the Rebel War Department" "Demand For A Trial of Davis" and more.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, mild margin wear and an older mend at the central fold.

Category: Post-Civil War