CIVIL WAR COPPERHEAD JOURNALIST CONFEDERATE DESERTER HUMORIST AUTOGRAPH SIGNATUR

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CIVIL WAR COPPERHEAD JOURNALIST CONFEDERATE DESERTER HUMORIST AUTOGRAPH SIGNATUR:
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DAVIDROSS LOCKE

a/k/a Petroleum VesuviusNasby

(1833 - 1888)

CIVIL WAR COPPERHEAD JOURNALIST,

EARLY POLITICAL COMMENTATOR DURING and AFTER THE WAR,

NOTED HUMORIST and SATIRIST ALONG WITH MARK TWAIN

DESERTER FROM BOTH THE UNION and CONFEDERATE ARMIES!

Locke\'s most famous works, the pro-Union \"Nasby Letters\", werewritten in the character of, and over the signature of \"Rev. PetroleumV(esuvius) Nasby\", a Copperhead and Democrat. They have been described as\"the Civil War written in sulphuric acid\"!! President Abraham Lincoln loved the Nasby Letters,and quoted them frequently!

HERE\'S LOCKE’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19thCENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM and SIGNED

“David R. Locke

Petroleum V. Nasby P. M.”

THE DOCUMENTMEASURES 4¾” x 3½” AND IS IN VERY FINE CONDITION.

A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WARERA POLITICAL/MILITARY HISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF

DAVID ROSS LOCKE

The Nasby papers: letters and sermons containing the views on the topics of the day of Petroleum V. Nasby (1864)
Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly Petroleum V. Nasby (1865)
Swingin\' Round the Cirkle (1866)
Swingin\' Round the Cirkle, or Andy\'s trip to the West, together with a life of its hero (1866)
Life of Androo Johnson (1866)
Ekkoes from Kentucky (1867)
The impendin crisis uv the Dimocracy, bein a breef and concise statement uv the past experience, present condishun and fucher hopes uv the Dimokratic party; incloodin the most prominent reesons why evry Dimokrat who loves his party shood vote for Seemore and Blare, and agin Grant and Colfax (1868)
The struggles (social, financial and political) of Petroleum V. Nasby ... embracing his trials and troubles, ups and downs, rejoicings and wailings, likewise his views of men and things; together with the lectures \"Cussed be Canaan,\" \"The struggles of a conservative with the woman question,\" and \"In search of a man of sin\" (1872)
The Moral History of America’s Life-Struggle (1874), illustrated by Thomas Nast.
Eastern fruit on western dishes; The morals of Abou Ben Adhem (1875)
Inflation at the cross roads being a history of the rise and fall of the Onlimited Trust and Confidence Company of Confedrit X roads, in a series of five letters (1875)
A Paper City (1878)
The Democratic John Bunyan being eleven dreams (1880)
Hannah Jane(1881), a sentimental poem
Nasby in exile: or, six months of travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, with many things not of travel (1882)
The demagogue, a political novel (1890)
The Nasby letters. Being the original Nasby letters (1893)
Petroleum V. Nasby on silver. (1896)
Civil War Letters of Petroleum V. Nasby, compiled with an introduction by Harvey S. Ford (1962)

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