President Lincoln Raising Union Flag

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Civil War Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861

The March 9, 1861 edition of Harper's Weekly Featured President Abraham Lincoln, on the cover, raising a union flag. The paper is filled with important details of the start of he Civil War. Newspaper Thumbnails will take you to the page of interest.

Abraham Lincoln Raising the Union Flag

Lincoln and the Union Flag

Miss Patterson of Baltimore

Congressional News

1861 Lincoln Assassination Plot

Story on Fort Smith and Little Rock

Completed U.S. Capitol Dome

Little Rock Arkansas

General David Twiggs

Continuation of Twiggs Story

Jefferson Davis Inauguration in Montgomery

Lincoln Assassination Plot

VOL. V.—No. 219.]

NEW YORK., SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1861.

[PRICE FIVE CENTS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1861, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN HOISTING THE AMERICAN FLAG WITH THIRTY-FOUR STARS UPON INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 22, 1861. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY F. D. RICHARDS, PHILADELPHIA: [SEE NEXT PAGE.]

President Abraham Lincoln Raises US Union Flag

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