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The formal end to the Civil War... Trial of Lincoln's assassins...
The formal end to the Civil War... Trial of Lincoln's assassins...
Item # 702460
May 28, 1865
NEW YORK TIMES, May 28, 1865
* Last of the Confederate forces surrender
* Formal end of the American Civil War
* re. Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the conspirators - assassins
Among the front page column heads are: "PEACE AT LAST" "Surrender of Gen. Kirby Smith's entire force" "Final Official Act of Insurgent Authority" "The Great Rebellion Has Passed Away" "Their Land and Naval Forces Declared Disbanded" "The Stars & Stripes Again Dominant Over All the County" "All Military Prisoners During the War Set Free" "E PLURIBUS UNUM!"
Also reports on: "The Trial Of the Assassins" "More Evidence of the Doings of Sanders & Thompson" "How Atzerotz Undertook to Make Sure of Vice-President Johnson" "They Will Probably Attempt to Justify the Murder as an Act of War" and more.
A very historic issue on the formal end to the Civil War.
Eight pages, irregular at the blank spine from disbinding, small stain in a lower corner.
background: The May 28, 1865, issue of the New York Times serves as a profound historical bookend, capturing the precise moment the United States pivoted from a state of total war to a fragile, shell-shocked peace. The headlines regarding General Kirby Smith’s surrender are monumental because they signify the collapse of the Trans-Mississippi Department, the last bastion of organized Confederate resistance, effectively turning the "Great Rebellion" into a closed chapter of military history. Yet, this triumphalism is tempered by the chilling, granular details of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy trial; the reports on George Atzerodt's plot against Vice President Johnson and the alleged complicity of Confederate agents in Canada remind the reader that while the organized battlefields were quiet, the nation remained deeply scarred by political violence. By declaring the "Stars & Stripes Again Dominant" alongside reports of legal maneuvers to justify regicide as an "act of war," the paper perfectly encapsulates the paradox of late May 1865: a country finally reunified by force, yet still grappling with the dark, conspiratorial shadows cast by its fallen leadership.
Category: Post-Civil War
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