2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
This lot is not to be passed up. An authentic and very historical bound 94 issues volume of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 1863, a key year in the American Civil War. Nov. 20, 21 and 22 missing. Published six days a week by one of the most famous of newspapers editors in America. If anything happened during this period, it's in this newspaper -- foreign or domestic. A presidential highlight is the message (Sept. 3) and proclamation (Sept. 16, both signed in type) from Abraham Lincoln from his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, his conciliatory plan for reunification of the United States. By this point in the Civil War, it's clear Lincoln needs to make some preliminary plans for postwar reconstruction. His state of the Union message is in the Dec. 10 issue. There are subsequent issues with follow-up from supporters and detractors. There's literally too much war coverage to compile here. You'll find reports on every major battle from Tennessee (Sept. 5) to Texas and beyond. The Lawrence Massacre (Sept. 2, 9), from the Corps d'Afrique (Sept. 4), Siege of Charleston (Sept. 5), fall of Fort Wagner (Sept. 10), capture of towns and cities in the south (Chattanooga, Sept. 10), Cumberland (Sept. 9), Chickamauga, etc; All venues involved in the national fight). The rebels are pushing ironclads to completion (Sept. 9) and evacuate Little Rock (Sept. 12); rebel raider John Morgan cuts a wide swath (2-page report, Sept. 12); Confederate pirates (Oct. 8); COLORED VICTIMS of NY Rioting (Oct. 10, complete and detailed); lists of draftees (Sept. 2), prisoners in Richmond's prison (Nov. 6) and killed in action (Dec. 2); accounts of southern slavery conditions by an English surgeon (Nov. 7); Women in the Army (Sept. 18); Women Riot in Mobile (Sept. 30); dispatches signed in type by Major General U.S. Grant including on contrabands (Sept. 21); President Lincoln suspends habeas corpus; Indian fighting rages in the territories (Sept. 19). In addition to the millions of words, you will also find front page maps including one (Oct. 2) related to a lengthy account of American naval fighting with Japan (Anglo-Satsuma War took place on August 15-17, 1863), fights in Tennessee and the occupation of Knoxville (Sept. 8) and Union movements along the Potomac. Maps in Sept 7, Oct. 2, 17, and Dec. 5 editions. Some minor tears, some archival repairs, some foxing. Nothing to detract from this "must" for the Civil War collector.
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