Obsequies of Addison O. Whitney and Luther C. Ladd, Soldiers, Who were slain at Baltimore, April 19th, 1861

by Civil War, 6th Massachusetts, Baltimore Riot

$1,750 · Offered by Back Creek Books

Lowell : Stone & Huse, Printers, 1861 . First printing. Single sheet. 5 x 8 Rare broadside program for the funerals of the first two Union soldiers killed in action during the Civil War. Addison and Ladd, both of Company D, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, were killed in mob violence as their regiment changed trains in Baltimore en route to the reinforcement of

• Printing: first

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