Washington City, D.C., March 22d, 1866 [electronic resource] : My dear Mr. Childs: I leave here to-morrow morning, on my tour through the slave-labor states, for the purpose (as you are aware) of visiting the great battle-fields of the late Civil War, and other places of interest connected with this event, which I have not already seen, in obtaining the drawings for the engravings, and collecting materials for the first volume of my work. ...

Author: Lossing, Benson J. (Benson John), 1813-1891
Published: [Philadelphia] : [Published by George W. Childs], [1866]
Physical Description: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 24 x 21 cm
Additional Creators: Childs, George William, 1829-1894

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American broadsides and ephemera. Series 1 ; no. 12251

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Announcing the commencement of research for the second and third volumes of the Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America.
Signed: Benson J. Lossing.
Addressed to Mr. George W. Childs of Philadelphia who published the first volume of Lossing's history in 1866, and who presumably issued this to promote volumes 2 and 3. However, in 1867 Childs relinquished publication and vols. 2-3 were published by T. Belknap at Hartford in 1868.
Printed area measures 20.6 x 17.1 cm.
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