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Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper

Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper

Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper

Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. Offered is an original, historic, & collectible old newspaper: DAILY EXAMINER, Richmond, Virginia, Jan.

26, 1865 Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving proclamation. Not only a Confederate newspaper, but one from the capital of the Confederacy. The front page includes: "The War News" with various reports from the different fields of battle, subheads including: "Deserters from the Yankee Army" "The Blockade" "The Nashville Disaster" and more. Also: "Spirit of the Army" "The Courts" "City Intelligence" and various advertisements.

The back page has a lengthy editorial which begins. In our patient & good humoured army there is now & then a slight grumble of dissatisfaction at the long-continued failure to issue their pay... There is also a: "Proclamation by the President, Appointing a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, with Thanksgiving" which is signed in type: Jefferson Davis. The back page also has much reporting from the: "Confederate States Congress". Complete as a single sheet newspaper with a one column masthead (typical late in the war) with untrimmed margins and in excellent condition.

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Rare CONFEDERATE Jefferson Davis Thanksgiving Procl. 1865 Civil War Newspaper