1864-66 book THE AMERICAN CONFLICT by Horace Greeley CIVIL WAR HISTORY w/prints

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A HISTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1860-64: ITS CAUSES, INCIDENTS, AND RESULTS: INTENDED TO EXHIBIT ESPECIALLY ITS MORAL AND POLITICAL PHASES, WITH THE DRIFT AND PROGRESS OF AMERICAN OPINION RESPECTING HUMAN SLAVERY FROM 1776 TO THE CLOSE OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

BY HORACE GREELEY

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HARTFORD: O. D. CASE & COMPANY
CHICAGO: GEO. & C. W. SHERWOOD

Volume I dated 1864
Volume II dated 1866 [and doesn't include Sherwood as publisher]

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© 1864 and 1866

Rebacked full sheep leather

TWO VOLUMES

Slightly over 9-¾" tall, 648 and 782 pages,
illustrated with maps, steel engravings, text illustrations

Owner bookplates of George P. Taitt of Gouvernour, NY [who served in the 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry]

Also with modern bookplates of Mary M. Cafeo

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Covers worn and stained,
contents agetoned, with some foxing

The covers are ugly, but the books are still quite serviceable

Nevertheless, the binding is quite sturdy

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The following information was taken from the Wikipedia:

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as opposition to slavery and a host of reforms ranging from vegetarianism to socialism.

Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is currently the only presidential candidate to have died prior to the counting of electoral votes.....

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