Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 63

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR.) Shiloh! . . . An organized defeat for the protraction of the war by Gen. U. S. Grant. Broadside advertisement for Col. Tom Worthington's book Shiloh, or the Tennessee Campaign of 1862. Approximately 18x11 1/2 inches; separations at folds repaired with tape. Cincinnati?, circa 1872

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Worthington's book, published in 1872, is a "startling philippic, accusing Halleck, Grant and Sherman with carrying out a plot to protract the war into 1864 or 1865, thus insuring the 1864 election to the Republican party"--Howes W685.