September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Scarce newspaper, three consecutive issues, "The Pilot," a Catholic newspaper with focus on the Irish Brigades, Boston, August 23, 1862, August 30, 1862, and September 7, 1862. Each issue is 8pp., disbound, loose at spine, occasional edge tears. VG. [8/30] from an interior page, "Release of Col. Corcoran! Grand Reception at Washington." ...plus, [8/30] Front page engraved image, "Brigadier General Michael Corcoran" with two column report. ...plus, [9/7] Front page, "Ovations to Gen. Corcoran! The City Greeting to a Gallant Officer, Triumphal March Through the City, Banquet at Revere House." Corcoran was able to fight for the Union and help raise Irish volunteers. As a colonel with the 69th New York Militia in the Union army, Corcoran was captured on July 21, 1861, at the 1st Battle of Bull Run. When Yankees threatened to execute as pirates some captured Confederate privateers, Colonel Corcoran was held as a hostage by the Confederacy. In retaliation the Confederates vowed Corcoran would receive the same fate dealt Walter W. Smith, the captain of the Confederate privateering ship. Smith's death sentence was subsequently countermanded, and Corcoran was exchanged in August 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general retroactive to the day he was captured.
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