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Hatcher, Edmund N : The Last Four Weeks of the War

The Co-Operative Publishing Co., Columbus, OH, 1892

Original publisher's green cloth binding. Black lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/2" x 8." 416 pages, complete. Black-and-white photographic illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning, tiny spots of foxing limited to text block, and faint occasional smudges. Covers are very clean and intact except for a few small scratches to front and slight wear to edges, corners, and head and tail of spine. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A comprehensive compilation of newspaper articles collected by author Edmund N. Hatcher that documented the last weeks of the Civil War from March 25-June 29, 1865. Edmund N. Hatcher was an American soldier who had served in the 62nd Ohio Infantry of the Union Army during the Civil War. In his Introduction, Hatcher states that while some of the articles have been shortened or edited, they still retain overall accuracy to how they originally appeared. The articles he had collected over the course of the war offer perspectives from both the Union and Confederacy as they were taken from Union and Confederate newspapers. Some of the articles contain reprinted correspondence. Hatcher summarizes which newspapers these articles originally came from, "The contents are from the War Correspondents and editorials of the following papers: The Tribune, Herald and Times, of New York; The Daily Rebel, Confederate Union and Mobile Register, of Alabama; The Raleigh Progress, and Confederate, of North Carolina; The Richmond Dispatch, Sentinel, Whig, and Enquirer, of Richmond, Virginia; The Daily Constitutionalist, of Augusta, Georgia; The New Orleans Picayune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Chronicle, Baltimore American, and The Cincinnati Commercial, Gazette and Enquirer, as well as from files of many papers of less prominence, that were issued during the War, many of which have been for years extinct." Numerous events and subjects from the last weeks of Civil War are documented, a small sampling of which includes the surrender of Richmond, President Abraham Lincoln's arrival to Richmond, military operations of Generals Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant, pursuits of General Robert E. Lee's army by the Union Army, Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse, the assassination of President Lincoln, the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward, John Wilkes Booth's letter written before the assassination, the inauguration of President Andrew Johnson, General Johnston's surrender, the funeral of President Lincoln, the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth, Wilson's raid, and Generals Sherman's, Grant's, and Meade's farewells to their armies.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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