Death of The Confederacy

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Broadside, 1p. 8-3/4"x7", it reads "Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, On Sunday April 9th, 1865, The Southern Confederacy, Aged Four Years. Conceived in Sin, Born in Iniquity, Nurutured by Tyranny, Died of a Chronic Attack of Punch. Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. U.S. Grant, Undertaker. Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Epitah, Gentle stranger, drop a tear, / The C.S.A. lies buried here; / In youth it lived and prosper'd well,/ But like Lucifer it fell;/ Its body here, its soul in - well/ E'en if I knew I wouldn't tell./ Rest C.S.A., from every strife,/ Your death is better than your life;/ And this one line shall grave your grave -/ Your death gave freedom to the slave." Printed by Jas. B. Rodgers, 52 & 54 North Sixth St. Fine. An excellent broadside. Though not dated probably printed April of 1865.

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