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[CIVIL WAR.] The Weekly Herald. New York: Saturday April 15, 1865. Issue no. 1,446. 8 pages broadsheet folio (23 ¼ x 16in.), unopened; 6-column format; top edge chipped, closed tears and wear at folds costing a few words.
"SURRENDER OF LEE'S WHOLE ARMY TO GRANT"
Published on the day Lincoln died--news that evidently did not arrive in time before the Weekly Herald went to press--this edition contains all of the dramatic news of the preceding days concerning Lee’s desperate, last-ditch attempt to escape the closing trap of Grant’s and Sheridan’s forces, which linked up at Appomattox Junction to block Lee’s route of escape Southward. The paper prints Sheridan’s 5 April dispatch to Grant: “I see no escape for Lee,” and the tortuous exchange of letters between Grant and Lee as the Union commander sought to impress on Lee “the hopelessness of further resistance” and to “shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender” of Lee’s army. After one more exchange Lee finally acceded. The paper prints Secretary of War Stanton’s congratulatory message to Grant: “Thanks be to Almighty God for the great victory with which he has this day crowned you and the gallant armies under your command.” A historic issue of this New York paper, which published between 1836 and 1896.
"SURRENDER OF LEE'S WHOLE ARMY TO GRANT"
Published on the day Lincoln died--news that evidently did not arrive in time before the Weekly Herald went to press--this edition contains all of the dramatic news of the preceding days concerning Lee’s desperate, last-ditch attempt to escape the closing trap of Grant’s and Sheridan’s forces, which linked up at Appomattox Junction to block Lee’s route of escape Southward. The paper prints Sheridan’s 5 April dispatch to Grant: “I see no escape for Lee,” and the tortuous exchange of letters between Grant and Lee as the Union commander sought to impress on Lee “the hopelessness of further resistance” and to “shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender” of Lee’s army. After one more exchange Lee finally acceded. The paper prints Secretary of War Stanton’s congratulatory message to Grant: “Thanks be to Almighty God for the great victory with which he has this day crowned you and the gallant armies under your command.” A historic issue of this New York paper, which published between 1836 and 1896.