2- column news report on the front page of the New York Observer, May 19, 1870. Complete issue of the newspaper, 18 x 25 inches, 8 pages, folded in quarters, light toning to paper, slight loss at fold intersections, else good more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub
