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[CIVIL WAR]. Printed document, newspaper handbill, [New York] Herald, 14 April 1865. 1 page broadsheet folio, slight discoloration, matted and framed.
"EXTRA. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 10 A.M. VICTORY! THE LAST OF THE CONFEDERACY, SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE WITH HIS ENTIRE ARMY."
A handbill advertisement for a special edition of the N. Y. Herald, printing the terms of surrender laid out in the exchange of letters between Grant and Lee on 9 April 1865. "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, and public property included. Officers were allowed to retain their side arms, and released upon parole of honor. Through the courtesy of Capt. Judson, A.A.G., we are enabled to give the following correspondence between Gens. Grant and Lee..." Here was the first news of the exact terms of the surrender, and it came on the same day that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The war-weary President would outlive the conflict by scarcely a week.
"EXTRA. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 10 A.M. VICTORY! THE LAST OF THE CONFEDERACY, SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE WITH HIS ENTIRE ARMY."
A handbill advertisement for a special edition of the N. Y. Herald, printing the terms of surrender laid out in the exchange of letters between Grant and Lee on 9 April 1865. "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, and public property included. Officers were allowed to retain their side arms, and released upon parole of honor. Through the courtesy of Capt. Judson, A.A.G., we are enabled to give the following correspondence between Gens. Grant and Lee..." Here was the first news of the exact terms of the surrender, and it came on the same day that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The war-weary President would outlive the conflict by scarcely a week.