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Lot 524
[CIVIL WAR]. Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, the Southern Confederacy, Aged Four Years. [Philadelphia, PA]: James B. Rodgers, 1865. 
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$300 - 400
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$500
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[CIVIL WAR]. Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, the Southern Confederacy, Aged Four Years. [Philadelphia, PA]: James B. Rodgers, 1865. 

8 3/4 x 7 in. printed broadside (small chip to upper edge; framed to 11 x 9 in. (not examined out of frame). 

The satirical broadside continues, in part: "Conceived in Sin, Born in Iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of a Chronic Attack of Punch. Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. U.S. Grant, Undertaker. Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner", followed by a six stanza "Epitaph". 

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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