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[NEWSPAPERS.] [CIVIL WAR.] A collection of 10 American newspapers from the Civil War era, including: Vermont Watchman & State Journal, 10 March 1865. Inauguration of President Lincoln (on p.2). -- Harper’s Weekly, 18 March 1865. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, with engraving on front cover of Lincoln being sworn-in by Chase. -- Goodhue County Republican (Red Wing, MN), 9 December 1864. Broadside Extra edition, devoted solely to Lincoln’s Annual Message to Congress. In Morocco folding case. -- New York Herald, 26 August 1863. Union attack on Charleston and Fort Sumter. -- The Tri-Weekly Telegram (Houston, Texas), 15 July 1863. 1p., broadside. Report on Emancipation Proclamation, fall of Vicksburg, and the death of Stonewall Jackson. -- Bucks County Intelligencer, 30 June 1863. Publishing letters from Union soldiers camped in Harrisburg, on eve of Battle of Gettysburg. -- [LINCOLN, Abraham.] Printed Proclamation, 30 March 1863, declaring 30 April 1863 to be a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. 1p., folio broadside. Browned, water-stained. With State proclamation of Andrew Curtin. -- New York Herald, 30 December 1862. Confederate advances in Virginia, “Stuart’s raid on Burnside’s rear.” Union gains in the West, “Reported Capture of Port Hudson by Admiral Farragut.” -- The New York Herald, 21 August 1862. “Important Rebel Movements.” “What Stonewall Jackson is About.” -- Clearfield Republican, n.d. Extra edition. 2pp. (recto and verso). President Buchanan’s Final Annual Message to Congress, 3 December 1860.