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(CIVIL WAR.)
Issue of the New York Tribune, with the Bull Run casualty
list nearly filling the front page.
8 pages, 22
1
/
2
x 16
3
/
4
inches, on one folding uncut
sheet; partially split along gutter fold, otherwise only minimal wear.
New York, 4 August 1861
[300/400]
This casualty list from the first major battle of the Civil War was stark evidence that the
nation had been plunged into tragedy. Later pages are filled with Bull Run reports and other
war talk.
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(CIVIL WAR.)
The Policy of McClellan, Followed by Grant, has Given us
the Victory!
Letterpress broadside, 8 x 18
3
/
4
inches; folds, minor foxing.
[New York?, circa April 1865?]
[500/750]
A rather mysterious production, apparently produced to celebrate the end of the war, and found
among the papers of New York merchant Charles A. Moore of 659 Broadway. The mystery is
why Generals McClellan and Grant are celebrated as the architects of victory, while Lincoln is
ignored. McClellan was a comparatively passive general, opposed Lincoln as a Democrat in the
1864 presidential election, and then kept a low profile until well after the war. Grant was an
aggressive general, was closely associated with Lincoln, and later became a prominent
Republican. This broadside may have been produced in the scant days between the Confederate
surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln’s assassination, perhaps in an effort to rehabilitate
McClellan’s reputation by linking him to the more popular Grant. Perhaps you might have a
better theory? No other copies traced.
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