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THBTexas Broadside Calling for Troops & Referencing the Fall of Vicksburg, Issued by J. Bankhead Magruder, 1863
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Printed broadside, 8.25 x 12 in., headed, Proclamation. To the People of Texas!, signed in type by J. Bankhead Magruder, Major General Commanding District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Houston?, 1863. Parrish & Willingham locate one copy at the National Archives.
The proclamation states, in part, Fellow-Citizens: Vicksburg has fallen, but our insolent foes have but little cause to rejoice. More than thirty thousand of them found bloody graves in the effort to reduce a city defended by less than twenty-five thousand men, and though the place was surrendered, the army was saved. Our victorious arms are now desolating Pennsylvania, and forty thousand prisoners attest the triumphant march of General Lee. The North will not long exult over the barren victory on the Mississippi...The benefits they expect from the fall of Vicksburg will not be reaped by them...Magruder states that he has called upon the Governor of Texas for ten thousand State troops. He also calls upon the citizens of varying ages and slaveholders to be organized and to do their part. He states, Adopt this plan throughout Texas, so that an army of minute men, who are exempt from forced service, bearing the rifles that once repelled the Mexican invader, may rush at a moment's warning from your prairies, and with their aid the organized forces of Texas will sweep from your borders any army that may come to murder and plunder upon your soil...Our barbarous foes...will yet learn that the spirit of the Alamo is the quick spirit of the land, and that Texas will not suffer...Let him who has been shirking the contest, arm in defense of home, report to those regiments in Texas not yet complete, and taste for once the proud joy of defending the soil that has fed him.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.Some light folds, scattered spotting. Few short tears along perimeter.Condition
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