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A graphic issue on the final days of the Civil War...
A graphic issue on the final days of the Civil War...
Item # 701629
April 04, 1865
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, April 4, 1865 A wonderfully graphic issue on the capture of the Confederate capture, foretelling the doom of the Confederacy and the end of the Civil War within day.
The front page has a map of the Richmond vicinity above which is a heraldic eagle with a banner "Grant" "Victory" in its beak. Also a patriotic engraving at the top of the first & last columns.
Among the front page column heads are: "RICHMOND!" "Babylon Is Fallen!!" "General Weitzel Occupies the City!" "Philadelphia Colored Troops the First to Enter!" "The Fleeing Rebels Fire Their Capital" "Weitzel's Negroes Extinguish; the Flames" "Lee's Army In Full Retreat" and so much more.
The back page features a political cartoon on the end of the Civil War, headed: "THE LAST GRASP" showing the key Yankee generals as the fingers and the Confederate states being crushed by the fingers.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, good condition.
Category: The Civil War
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