Herald Extra … Victory! The last of the Confederacy. Surrender of Gen'l Lee with his Entire Army. Terms of Surrender.
New York?]: 14 April 1865. Newspaper extra (445 x 121 mm). Text in a single column. Condition : stained. Matted and framed. The newspaper extra continues: “Dispatches arrived here this morning, announced the gratifying intelligence that General Lee surrendered the entire rebel army of Northern Virginia, on Monday, as prisoners of war …” Reprints of Grant’s 9 April letter to Lee proposing surrender and Lee’s reply of the same day then follow. The very night of the printing of this extra, a mere twelve hours later, John Wilkes Booth would fatally shoot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
Herald Extra … Victory! The last of the Confederacy. Surrender of Gen'l Lee with his Entire Army. Terms of Surrender.
New York?]: 14 April 1865. Newspaper extra (445 x 121 mm). Text in a single column. Condition : stained. Matted and framed. The newspaper extra continues: “Dispatches arrived here this morning, announced the gratifying intelligence that General Lee surrendered the entire rebel army of Northern Virginia, on Monday, as prisoners of war …” Reprints of Grant’s 9 April letter to Lee proposing surrender and Lee’s reply of the same day then follow. The very night of the printing of this extra, a mere twelve hours later, John Wilkes Booth would fatally shoot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
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