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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02916 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 9 April 1865 Pagination: 1 p. ; 25 x 18 cm Order a Copy

Small newspaper broadside re-printing Grant's famous notice to Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, about Lee's surrender at Appomattox. "Let the People Rejoice. Surrender of Lee and His Whole Army. Ring the Bells and Shout Loud Huzzas." With a manuscript note "Printed At Midnight Sunday April 9. /65."

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

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