Apr 27, 2006 - Sale 2077

Sale 2077 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR.) PORTER, DANIEL D. Manuscript Signed, a speech given by Porter at an 1878 Memorial Day ceremony, beginning "Nothing is more touching and beautiful than to see a nation testifying its grief over the graves of those who have died that their country might live and who in giving their lives as a sacrifice on the altar of loyalty have ensured the blessings of freedom on millions yet unborn . . ." 1 1/2 pages, two small folio sheets, ruled paper; remnants of prior mounting on verso. Np, circa May 1878