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Perhaps the definitive Battle of Gettysburg issue...
Perhaps the definitive Battle of Gettysburg issue...
Item # 701653
July 06, 1863
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, July 6, 1863
* Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
* Most historic battle of the Civil War
* Great reporting - Among the best to be had
A terrific issue reporting the result of the very historic Battle of Gettysburg, with nearly two-thirds of the front page's first column taken up with related heads, atop of which is a nice patriotic emblem.
They include: "THE GREAT VICTORY" "The Rebel Army Totally Defeated" "Its Remains Driven Into the Mountains" "It is There Surrounded and Hemmed In" "Its Retreat Across the Potomac River Cut Off" "20,000 Prisoners Captured" "The Rebel General Longstreet Killed" "Details of the Three Days' Fighting" "The Most Terrific Combat on Record" and even more.
The entire front page and back page are taken up with detailed reports of the Battle of Gettysburg, including a short dispatch signed in type: Abraham Lincoln.
The complete 12 page issue, small binding indents at the blank spine, very nice condition.
AI notes: On July 4–5, 1863, after the Union victory at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee began retreating his battered Confederate army under heavy rain, organizing a long wagon train of wounded and heading toward the Potomac River. Union General George G. Meade, though cautious, did not immediately pursue aggressively. The rain-swollen Potomac temporarily trapped Lee’s army, but no major Union attack followed. By July 5, Lee’s forces had begun withdrawing from the battlefield, marking the end of the Gettysburg Campaign. The Union victory, along with the fall of Vicksburg on July 4, became a major turning point in the Civil War.
Category: Yankee
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