Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
Newspaper broadsheet, an authentic issue of the Tri-Weekly State Gazette, Austin, Texas, August 22, 1863, 9-1/2” x 12-1/2, never bound, near fine. From the front page, a series of brief war reports to include “A list embracing 42 names of persons whose houses were burnt in Jackson by the Yankees is published ...Nearly all the negroes were carried off ...” Then, Lieut. Meade of Morgan’s command ... states the entire force with which Morgan entered Indiana numbered only 2643 men. ... “Arrival of Gen. John Morgan ... the party arrived last night shortly after 10:00 o’clock .. guarded by .. Gen. Shackleford, the captor of Morgan.... not less than 500 surrounded the famous guerilla and his aides. ...lookers on seemed excited and cried ‘Hang the cut throats,...”
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