(CIVIL WAR) The Opelousas Courier

Sale 1946 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 1,495

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

UNION WALLPAPER NEWSPAPER (CIVIL WAR.) The Opelousas Courier. Volume II, No. 8. 1 page, folio sheet, floral wallpaper; usual folds with minor separations, very light foxing. Opelousas, LA: William Curran, 30 April 1863

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An uncommon Union wallpaper newspaper published by a member of the 41st Massachusetts Volunteers after the occupation of the city. Brigham, Wallpaper Newspapers of the Civil War (in Bibliographical Essays: A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames) lists two issues preceding this one, 22 April and 25 April 1830, but makes no mention of one from this date.<