Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Complete issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, June 18, 1864, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the front cover, a very dramatic engraving captioned, “Union Soldiers as They Appear on Their Release from the Rebel Prisons - From Photographs Made by Order of Congress.” The full page engraving is keyed, #1-#18, identifying each of the victims . A nearly full column report is presented on a separate page. Then, from the interior, a full page engraving of Col. L. G. Baker, USA Special Agent of the War Department ...” with nearly full column report presented on a separate page. Baker took over charge of the Union Intelligence Service from the Scottish detective Allan Pinkerton and led the hunt for Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
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