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Nice print of a Confederate steamship...
Nice print of a Confederate steamship...
Item # 701659
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February 09, 1863
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 9, 1863
* Rare CSS Florida print (Oreto)
* Battle of Fort Donelson - Tennessee
* Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
The front page features a great print of: "The Pirate Steamship Oreto, Or Florida" with some text on it in the caption. Uncommon to find such graphic prints in the daily newspapers.
The balance of the front page is taken up with various Civil War reports including: "The Affair In Charleston Harbor" "News From Vicksburg" "A Gallant Achievement" "From General Rosecrans's Army" "The Repulse of the Rebels at Ft. Donelson" and more.
Eight pages, a bit irregular at the blank spine margin due to disbinding, nice condition.
Note: The Oreto, later commissioned as the CSS Florida, was a Confederate steam-powered commerce raider built in Liverpool and launched in 1862. By 1863, under the command of Lt. John Newland Maffitt, it became one of the most effective Confederate naval vessels, capturing or destroying numerous Union merchant ships in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Despite being plagued by illness among the crew, it famously escaped the Union blockade at Mobile Bay and continued to disrupt Northern trade. While the Confederacy viewed the Florida as a legitimate warship, Union officials often labeled it a pirate, and its British origins strained international neutrality laws.
Category: Yankee
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