A Very Rare 1862 Confederate Broadside CIVIL War Americana
A VERY RARE 1862 CONFEDERATE BROADSIDE. [CONFEDERATE] [CIVIL WAR] [AMERICANA] [BROADSDIE] Confederate Broadside: To the People of Western Virginia.
Charleston, Virginia, September 14, 1862. 33 x 16.5 cm.The Army of the Confederate States has come among you to expel the enemy, to rescue the people from the despotism of the counterfeit State Government imposed on you by Northern bayonets, and to restore the country once more to its natural allegiance to the State. We fight for peace and the possession of our own territory.
We do not intend to punish those who remain at home as quiet citizens in obedience to the laws of the land... But to those who persist in adhering to the cause of the public enemy, and the pretended State Government he has erected at Wheeling, will be dealt with as their obstinate treachery deserves. Moderate toning and damp-staining, hinges on upper verso. It appears to be identical with that issue.
With that said, modern scholarship indicates that there were two printings of this broadside. Originally, it was supposed that he the second printing was printed after the Confederate invasion, but now it is more generally believed that both printings were done by the Confederate forces. Additionally, RareBookHub indicates in a 1948 Midland catalog that Years ago a fast worker in Virginia offered a number of copies of this colorful broadside to dealers. Aside from the fact that they were printed on a light-weight newsprint paper, strongly bleached, they were an excellent counterfeit. Exactly the same type face was used, in identically the same composition, but...
With the exceptions that prove the fraud. The bibliographic points provided in the counterfeit broadside do not correspond with this broadside. The item "A VERY RARE 1862 CONFEDERATE BROADSIDE CIVIL WAR AMERICANA" is in sale since Sunday, November 27, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Other Civil War Original Items". The seller is "addy113" and is located in New York, New York.
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- Year Printed: 18620000