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Follow-up to Gettysburg and Vicksburg...
Follow-up to Gettysburg and Vicksburg...
Item # 700487
July 11, 1863
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, July 11, 1863
* Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
* Confederates proclaim victory
Among the front page column heads on the Civil War, from just a week after the Battle of Gettysburg, are: "Brilliant Cavalry Fight at Antietam" "The Rebels Driven from the Field" "Reports by a Rebel Deserter" "Lee Drawing Supplies From Virginia" "He is Fortified & Ready for an Attack" and more specifically about Gettysburg & Vicksburg: "Rebel Accounts of the Great Battles" "Complete Rout of the Union Army" "They Admit Terrible Losses" "Gens. Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett and Kemper Killed" "Laughable Reports from Vicksburg" and more.
Eight pages, never-trimmed margins, great condition.
AI notes: In the days immediately following the Battle of Gettysburg, several Confederate newspapers and officials—relying on fragmentary reports and buoyed by early battlefield impressions—proclaimed the engagement a Southern victory, and July 10, 1863 saw some of the most emphatic declarations. Because Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had withdrawn in good order across the Potomac, Southern editors interpreted the retreat not as a defeat but as a strategic shift after having “severely punished” the enemy, publishing confident claims that Union forces had been badly battered and that Lee retained the initiative. These proclamations also reflected the Confederacy’s need to maintain morale in the wake of grim news from Vicksburg, surrendered just days earlier on July 4. In reality, of course, the scale of casualties, the loss of offensive momentum, and Lee’s forced retreat made Gettysburg a decisive strategic defeat, but on July 10 many in the South—still unaware of the full extent of losses—framed the battle as a hard-fought triumph that proved the army’s resilience and justified hopes for another northern invasion.
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