Dated Bethlehem, January 12, 1865. Measures 22.5 x 28.25”, matted in green, mounted in modern black frame measuring 22 x 26”, with card backing. Broadside exhibits fold-marks, light wrinkles, & one small faint crack at the lower left margin. Printing lightly faded in a few spots, but overall clean, sharp, & entirely legible.

Broadside Text--As can be seen in accompanying photo, the broadside advertises the January 16^th lecture of Col. Hawkins “at half past Seven O’Clock, in the Hall of the Moravian Day-School. Subject: “The War in East Tennessee, and the Sanitary Commission.” The friends of the sick and Wounded Soldiers are invited to attend. By the request of Many Citizens. Bethlehem, January 12, 1865.”

The legendary US Sanitary Commission dispensed considerable aid & material assistance to wounded Union soldiers & civilians during the war. Though Confederates controlled East Tennessee from 1861-63, the area was Union in sentiment and supplied numerous troops to the Union cause, as well as its Union military governor, former US Senator Andrew Johnson.  Col. Hawkins was a famed Sanitary Commission orator, and his late-war  broadside was clearly aimed at Union sympathizers in the Bethlehem area.

Superb  East Tennessee/Sanitary Commission collectible.

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