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RARE 1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper BALTIMORE RIOTS in Maryland PRATT STREET RIOT
RARE 1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper BALTIMORE RIOTS in Maryland PRATT STREET RIOT
RARE 1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper BALTIMORE RIOTS in Maryland PRATT STREET RIOT
RARE 1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper BALTIMORE RIOTS in Maryland PRATT STREET RIOT
RARE 1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper BALTIMORE RIOTS in Maryland PRATT STREET RIOT

RARE 1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper BALTIMORE RIOTS in Maryland PRATT STREET RIOT

$ 23.76

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Condition: Used
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    Description

    1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper with front page headline reports of the
    BALTIMORE RIOTS
    , in Maryland, which resulted in the first bloodshed by hostile action of the CIVIL WAR, when Maryland Confederate sympathizers attacked Union Troops being transported through the city.
    #1R-016
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    SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
    _Boston Semi-Weekly Advertiser_
    (MA) dated April 27, 1861 with fantastic CIVIL WAR and BALTIMORE, MARYLAND history!
    A COMPELLING addition to any fine Civil War or Maryland collection.
    The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, (beginning at the President Street Station and President Street and continuing ending on Howard Street at the Camden Street Station) in Baltimore, Maryland, between antiwar "Copperheads" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland), as well as Southern / Confederate sympathizers, and members of the primarily Massachusetts and some Pennsylvania state militia regiments en route to the national capital at Washington called up for Federal service. It produced the first deaths by hostile action in the American Civil War and is nicknamed the "First Bloodshed of the Civil War"
    Good condition, with moderate edge wear, light foxing and a few creses where the paper was folded.
    This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper.
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