Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 423

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
OLIVER, J.G. The Amateur Gazette, Volume I, Number 1. 4 pages. Small 8vo leaf, folded to form four 12mo pages, printed on all sides; faint damp stain to the lower right corner of the piece; paper lightly and evenly toned. Worcester, Mass: J.G. Oliver, editor and publisher, 1877
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The lead story for this little home-made newspaper is titled "How I Run an Engine": "The engineer was dead drunk and the fireman was a negro fresh from the plantation. We were at Pulaski, Tenn., and it was absolutely necessary to reach Athens by daylight. We had just learned that Forrest (Nathan Bedford) was moving on the Negro garrison there and unless we could throw in a regiment at once we knew it would be captured. . .This was after Fort Pillow, We dreaded another massacre of our colored troops. . .'to be continued.'" Probably written, printed and edited by a young person. Scarce: OCLC locates two copies, Yale, and American Antiquarian Society.