Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR--NEWSPAPERS.) Pair of issues of the Richmond Whig on Lee's surrender. 2 issues, each 8 pages (18 1/2 x 12 inches) on one folding sheet, unbound; soiling to front page of first issue, otherwise minor wear; unopened. Richmond, VA, 13 and 14 April 1865

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Published under Union management two weeks after the fall of Richmond, these two issues report on the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox.