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LOT 271
SOLD €1100,00

[American Civil War] Brief van den jood Nathan Benjamins, soldaat bij het leger

der Noordelijke Staten van Noord-Amerika, aan zijnen oom Mozes Hamburger te Groningen. (Letterlijk naar het handschrift afgedrukt). Gron., R.S. Schaank, n.d. (1864), 15 p., orig. printed wr. Waterst./ moulded/ frauyd in upper margin, folded throughout. Wrappers dam., frontwr. loose. Extremely rare, apparently no copies in NCC. Printed above the text: Bij Richmond in Noord Hamerika in de begin van Noovhember 1864. Beste hoom! [sic]. Cf. R.H. de Graaf, Journalistiek in beweging. Veranderende berichtgeving in kranten en pamfletten (Groningen en ’s-Hertogenbosch 1813-1899), 1980, p. 267, listing a copy in the Groninger Archieven (the only other copy traced). Account of a Jew from Groningen, fighting as a soldier in North America during the American civil war. According to the site www.civilwardata.com, a Nathan Benjamin (born in Ohio) enlisted on 12/31/1864 as a private, but this might be a coincidence.

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