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"The signal for the uprising of the Southern States."

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 The signal for the uprising of the Southern States.
"Soldiers & Sailors Almanac for 1869, and History of the Late Rebellion from 1860 to 1865," Soldiers' & Sailors' Publishing Co., 150 Fulton St., N.Y., 5 1/4 x 7 3/4, (32) pp., sewn. All-over pictorial mocha cover, showing soldier and sailor shaking hands, a camp scene in background. Advertisement for H.T. Helmbold's Drug and Chemical Warehouse, 594 Broadway; large woodcut scene on inside back cover showing Hottentots clad only in loincloths "gathering buchu leaves at the Cape of Good Hope," bales neatly addressed to 594 Broadway, N.Y. Chronological history of the Civil War, from Lincoln's first election - "the signal for the uprising of the Southern States" - to Andrew Johnson's declaration of war's end on May 9, 1865. Plus tables of "Remarkable Events" in world history for each day of each month. Light wear, some foxing, fine hole at upper left where once hung on a pin, else very good. No copies on abebooks. WorldCat locates only four copies. Rare.