2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
A Confederate Broadside, 13-3/4" x 14-1/2", (in larger frame) signed in type Bradley T. Johnson, Colonel C.S.A, Maryland, 1862, Parrish & Willingham 1238. This is the only know Confederate broadside from Maryland issued by General Bradley T. Johnson. September 8, 1862. "TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND. After sixteen months of oppression more galling than the Austrian tyranny, the victorious army of the south brings freedom to your doors. Its standard now of Maryland, who during the last long months, have been crushed under the heel of this terrible despotism now have the opportunity for working out their own redemption for which they have so long waited and suffered and hoped." Very rare broadside calling for Maryland recruits to join the Confederate struggle, General Johnson, signs as "Colonel C.S.A." as he exhorts his fellow Marylanders. "You must now do your part... Remember the cells of Fort McHenry! Remember the dungeons of Lafayette and Fort Warren: the insults to your wives and daughters, the arrests, the midnight searches of your houses! Remember these wrongs, and rise at once in arms and strike for Liberty and right." Johnson would indeed raise one regiment of Marylanders and lead these very men in Jackson's Valley Campaign. Exceedingly RARE broadside as there are not many Confederate Maryland Units. Purportedly four examples exist in institutions, this being the only one in private hands.
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