Nov 21 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2687 -

Sale 2687 - Lot 87

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--IOWA.) Fort Dodge Republican broadside extra on blue paper. Letterpress broadside, 11¼ x 7¾ inches, on blue paper; masthead cropped. Fort Dodge, IA, 26 March 1862

Additional Details

Printed on light blue paper verging on "necessity paper" due to the shortage of white paper in central Iowa at that time. Reports on recent battles at Island Number Ten, New Bern, and Pea Ridge.