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Lot 259

[GETTYSBURG ADDRESS] REVISED Pennsylvania Report on the Soldiers' National Cemetery

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Revised Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Singerly & Myers, 1865. 8vo. Lithographed frontispiece, maps. Original embossed cloth. Sabin 27247.

 

SOLDIER'S GIFT INSCRIPTION TO frontispiece and titlepage: "P.O. Reilly / to / Lt.[?] O. Reilly. / Feb 16th. 1866"

 

Inscribed by "P.O. Reilly" who may be either Private Peter Reilly of Co. F, 115th Pennsylvania Infantry, or Philip Reilly of Co. F, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry; both of whom fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and would have been personally interested in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery and the Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg.

 

Notably, the work prints Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on page 211. 

 

[Civil War, Union, Confederate]  [Books, Bibles, Soldiers' Bibles, Prayer Books, Ephemera, Pamphlets, Publications, Booklets, Memoirs]

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