2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/13/2024
They include; A broadside, 6" x 9" titled "LAND, NEGROES, Stock &c FOR SALE". This offered by W.J. Barksdale, Haw-Branch (Plantation), Amelia (Virginia). In part, "At the same time and place, I shall sell to the highest bidder, for cash, 120 negroes, all of them born and raised on the plantation. ..." ... plus Broadside, 9" x 26", "PROCLAMTION" Head Quarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May, 1862, issued by Benjamin Butler. "Major General Butler led 5,000 troops to occupy New Orleans on May 1, 1862, issuing this proclamation to the city's civilians. It was the intention of Union soldiers, the proclamation stated, "to restore order, maintain public tranquility, [and] enforce peace and quiet under the Laws and Constitution of the United States." The Union Army "came here [to New Orleans] not to destroy but to make good, to restore order out of chaos, and the government of laws in place of the passions of men…" ... plus, Newspaper, "The Rebel", Chattanooga, Tenn. August 9, 1862, 4-pages. This edition of the Chattanooga-based Confederate newspaper reports on the conduct of the war in Virginia, the arrest of "Copperhead" Sen. Clement T. Vallandingham, and the murder near Knoxville of Confederate Gen. William R. Caswell by a party of armed; men. ... plus, The New York Herald, 4-pages, April 15, 1865 (several tears). This edition carried a thorough account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This purports to be an 8:10 a.m. "Mourning Edition," the existence of the original 8:10 edition of which has never been proved.
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