2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Issued "Aug. 5, 1864" at Bedford County Tennessee (about 40 miles south of Nashville) by two civilians, (leading citizens of that county) appealing for assistance from the public. 7½ x 18 (blank reverse). Two inch headline "IMPORTANT NOTICE !" followed by three bold lines: "GEN. COUCH has requested the undersigned to call upon the citizens of the county, to obstruct the mountain passes on such roads as might be used by raiding parties. The subscribers do not act in their official capacity, in making this call, but hope that the people will at once respond and organize." Bold printed signatures of those two citizens. Union General Darius Couch, who had earlier led his Army Corps to important Union victories, was then in command of the Second Division of the XXIII Corps. This poster superbly displays his actions trying to halt Confederate General Hood's invasion of Tennessee after losing Atlanta and preceding the buildup to the battle at Nashville in December. It was also those same months that this exact poster was issued attempting to halt the "raiding parties" by Confederate General Forrest's cavalry in those very same "…mountain passes." Normal light aging. Three very small holes center in blank areas only. Small piece out extreme corner upper left margin and few pieces out on extreme edges of the blank right margins. Normal aging. Exc. A highly significant and rare Civil War poster.
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