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Lee's surrender & Lincoln's assassination in a "Confederate" newspaper..
Lee's surrender & Lincoln's assassination in a "Confederate" newspaper..
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April 25, 1865
DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST, Augusta, Georgia, April 25, 1865 Obviously a very scarce title from just weeks after the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Grant at Appomattox. In fact the front page has two very notable reports, the first column having; "Lee's Capitulation" "The Execution of the Details of the Surrender" 'The Army Taking Position Along the Southside Railroad". The text takes over a full column and offers some very nice detail on the meeting between Grant and Lee and how they dealt with one another (see for portions).
This is followed by what would appear to be the first report in this newspaper of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with the second column having a report taken from the New York Herald of April 15, with heads: "ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN!" "Seward Daggered in his Bed but not Mortally Wounded" "Scene at the Death Bed of Mr. Lincoln" "J. Wilkes Booth, the Actor, the Alleged Assassin of the President" with 2 1/2 column of detail on the assassination report, with one of the subheads noting: "Death of President Lincoln". Very significant to find this report in a captured "Confederate" newspaper.
There is a great wealth of reporting on page 2, too much to photo here, but the editorial staff still shows evidence of Confederate sympathies with several mentions of the "Yankees" and the "enemy" with reference to the Northern forces. A few items include: "The Situation in Georgia" which mentions: "...Passengers report that the enemy in small force, about 100 in number, entered that city on the morning previous & burned the depot of the Macon & Western railroad..." and: "...At West Point the Yankees captured the fort after a determined struggle in its defence..." and much more. Other items include: "Arrival of Gen. Grant in Washington" "Richmond" "Jeff Davis Refused Permission to Leave the Country" "Wholesale Desertions of Virginia Soldiers from Lee's Army" and much more.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, dirtiness & foxing to the top half of the front page, wear at folds causing minimal loss to some words at fold junctures and other folds.
Category: Confederate
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