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The Capture of Richmond

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Printed broadside, 1p. folio, "CAPTURE OF RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG" with words by G.P. Hardwick, Washington, 1865, adorned with the various corps badges at top in blue and red, it is "Respectfully Dedicated to the Army of the Potomac," and reads in part: "…We’ll sing the doom and the final fall/Of the boasting chivalry, one and all:/And how Grant drove them to the wall,/ Way down in Old Virginia…Lee saw that Grant’s strategic plans/Defeated him on every had,/And he will with Davis soon would land/In the ditch of the Rebellion./ Grant Longstreet drew far from his base,/Whipped Gordon and Hill before his face,/And sent him on a steeple chase/From Richmond with his army/…’Twas burn and plunder through the town,/While Jeff dressed up in his wife’s gown/Took a hasty leave of his Cotton Throne,/While we captured the Rebel cities…" Small tears at margins, else VG.

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