Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL WAR--NEWSPAPERS.) Pair of broadside extra editions of the Daily Democrat. Each about 13 x 5 inches; minor foxing, folds, short separations at folds of 1864 issue. [St. Louis, MO?], 1862-64

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Daily Democrat Extra. Report on the capture of Island No. 10. 8 April [1862] Democrat Extra: Glorious News. Illustrated with a cut of a flag and cannon. Report on the capture of Savannah, including the text of Sherman's pithy dispatch to Lincoln: "I beg leave to present you, as a Christmas gift, with the City of Savannah." [25 December 1864].