CIVIL WAR BEGINNING Post Fort Sumter Attack & Jefferson Davis 1861 Old Newspaper


CIVIL WAR BEGINNING Post Fort Sumter Attack & Jefferson Davis 1861 Old Newspaper

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CIVIL WAR BEGINNING Post Fort Sumter Attack & Jefferson Davis 1861 Old Newspaper:
$32.00


CIVIL WAR BEGINNING Post Fort Sumter Attack & Jefferson Davis 1861 Old Newspaper (Note: additional images are located below the description) Shown is an original & historic old newspaper, offered to enhance your collectible interest: NEW YORK HERALD, April 18, 1861

* Beginning of the Civil War
* Post Fort Sumter attack
* Troops forming

Among the first column heads from the first week of the Civil War are: "The War" "Attitude of the Border Slave States" "Reported Defeat of the Secession Ordinance in Virginia" "Troops Dispatched to Garrison Harper's Ferry" "Proclamation of the President of the Confederate States" which is signed by him in type: Jefferson Davis; "Hang Out the Star Spangled Banner" and much more.

Eight pages, a bit close-trimmed to the bottom third of the spine margin, otherwise very nice.
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