(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) Issue of the Liberator featuring the d

Sale 2598 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 594

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

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Issue of the Liberator featuring the departure of the 54th Massachusetts for the front. 4 pages, 25 x 18 inches, on one folding sheet; moderate wear including slight loss at intersection of folds; uncut. Boston, 5 June 1863

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

An issue of William Lloyd Garrison's famous abolitionist weekly with a 12-inch article on the legendary "Glory" regiment, which "took its departure for the field of active service" as "the pioneer colored regiment raised in the Northern States." The reporter expresses "no fear, on the part of their friends, that they will disgrace the cause for which they fight." The final review by Governor Andrew is described, as well as the route of their march to the wharf with a cheering crowd and the accompaniment of Gilmore's Band "to the tune of John Brown." At the wharf, "Frederick Douglass passed round among the different companies, bidding the soldiers farewell, and giving them words of encouragement" (two of his sons served in the regiment). The regiment's officers including the doomed Colonel Robert G. Shaw are listed, and "in Essex Street, a lady presented Col. Shaw with a handsome bouquet."

Among the other articles in this issue are a speech by Wendell Phillips, a report on the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, an article on the recruitment of the 55th Massachusetts regiment, and the publication of a new map of Charleston Harbor, where the 54th was heading for their meeting with history at Fort Wagner.