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[CIVIL WAR] Scarce 1865 Civil War Broadside Advertising POW Escape Lecture
Letterpress broadside printed on light wove paper with bold display wood and metal types. Machias, Maine: uncredited local job press, April 1865. Measures approx. 12 x 14 in.
A rare and dramatic Civil War homefront broadside announcing the public lecture of an escaped Union prisoner of war who traversed the Confederate interior in enemy disguise.
Headed with a massive woodcut display header "NOTICE!", the text announces: "Lieut. SHEAHAN / Of the Maine 31st, an escaped prisoner from COLUMBIA, S. C., will give a narrative of his Adventures, in the / TOWN HALL, EAST MACHIAS, / On Tuesday Eve., Apr. 25th, at 7 1-2 o’clock. / Lieut. S., traveled several weeks under the guise of a CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, and brings with him much Curious and Thrilling information of the state of affairs at the South. / LECTURE FREE. The public are respectfully invited to attend."
John P. Sheahan enlisted in Company E of the 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry in early 1864, rising to First Lieutenant before being captured during the brutal fighting during the Siege of Petersburg in the summer of 1864. Sent south to the officer stockade at Columbia, South Carolina Sheahan executed a daring breakout in late 1864. Donning Confederate grey, he successfully traveled hundreds of miles behind Southern lines before slipping safely into Union lines. Staged on 25 April 1865, just days after the fall of Richmond, Appomattox, and Lincoln's assassination, this lecture gave his Down East neighbors a firsthand chronicle of Confederate collapse from an operative who lived it undercover.
[Civil War Broadside, 31st Maine Infantry, Camp Sorghum, Columbia South Carolina, Escaped Prisoner, POW, Undercover, Confederate Disguise, East Machias Maine, Overland Campaign, Petersburg, Homefront, 1865 Broadside, Civil War Ephemera]
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Very good condition. Bold typographical impressions throughout on original supple paper. Shows honest period horizontal mailing folds, light uniform age toning, and minor chipping at the extreme right margin and upper corner not impinging upon any text.
Letterpress broadside printed on light wove paper with bold display wood and metal types. Machias, Maine: uncredited local job press, April 1865. Measures approx. 12 x 14 in.
A rare and dramatic Civil War homefront broadside announcing the public lecture of an escaped Union prisoner of war who traversed the Confederate interior in enemy disguise.
Headed with a massive woodcut display header "NOTICE!", the text announces: "Lieut. SHEAHAN / Of the Maine 31st, an escaped prisoner from COLUMBIA, S. C., will give a narrative of his Adventures, in the / TOWN HALL, EAST MACHIAS, / On Tuesday Eve., Apr. 25th, at 7 1-2 o’clock. / Lieut. S., traveled several weeks under the guise of a CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, and brings with him much Curious and Thrilling information of the state of affairs at the South. / LECTURE FREE. The public are respectfully invited to attend."
John P. Sheahan enlisted in Company E of the 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry in early 1864, rising to First Lieutenant before being captured during the brutal fighting during the Siege of Petersburg in the summer of 1864. Sent south to the officer stockade at Columbia, South Carolina Sheahan executed a daring breakout in late 1864. Donning Confederate grey, he successfully traveled hundreds of miles behind Southern lines before slipping safely into Union lines. Staged on 25 April 1865, just days after the fall of Richmond, Appomattox, and Lincoln's assassination, this lecture gave his Down East neighbors a firsthand chronicle of Confederate collapse from an operative who lived it undercover.
[Civil War Broadside, 31st Maine Infantry, Camp Sorghum, Columbia South Carolina, Escaped Prisoner, POW, Undercover, Confederate Disguise, East Machias Maine, Overland Campaign, Petersburg, Homefront, 1865 Broadside, Civil War Ephemera]
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Very good condition. Bold typographical impressions throughout on original supple paper. Shows honest period horizontal mailing folds, light uniform age toning, and minor chipping at the extreme right margin and upper corner not impinging upon any text.
