2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
Single Sheet EXTRA Broadside, 8-1/2" x 6", issued by the Janesville Daily Gazette, July 4, 1862. Stacked headlines, "EXTRA. LATE NEWS FROM THE ARMY BEFOEE [sic] RICHMOND. A TERRIFIC BATTLE ON MONDAY! LOSS VERY GREAT ON BOTH SIDES. THE ENEMY REPULSED! SHIELD'S ARMY HAS ARRIVED. POSITION OF OUR ARMY IMPROVED. SIX DAYS FIGHTING. OUR WHOLE LOSS 15,000 TO 20,000!" An unrecorded Civil War broadside publicizing a dispatch from Union Gen. George B. McClellan following The Seven Days' Battles, which occurred between June 26 and July 2, 1862. In the course of that week Union and Confederate forces fought a series of battles in five different locales. At the end of these engagements the Confederates withdrew to Richmond. This EXTRA provides information about losses and casualties, and states: "Gen. McClellan and his big staff all agree that the position of our army is far more advantageous as a base of operations against Richmond than that hitherto occupied." Although most of the battles in the Seven Days can be considered Union victories, the overall outcome of the campaign was still not particularly successful for the Union, due to McClellan's weaknesses as a commander in the field. Afterwards, the Union's Peninsular Campaign was abandoned and the majority of McClellan's men were transferred to John Pope's army in Northern Virginia.
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.