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[END OF THE CIVIL WAR]. The New York Herald. Whole No. 10,451. New York, NY, April 10, 1865. 8 folio pages on folded sheets (these sheets are uncut at the top, so this issue is on one large folded sheet). Each page approximately 584 x 413 mm. Toned, one vertical and 7 horizontal creases to each page, some chipping, tears, foxing, several wrinkles along the previously mentioned creases. This issue is devoted to the end of the Civil War. On p. 1: “The End. Surrender of Lee and His Whole Army to Grant. Terms of Surrender. All Honor to Grant, Meade, Sheridan, Ord, Humphreys, Wright, Griffin, Parke, and their Brave Troops. Highly Interesting Details of the Fighting Before the Surrender.” Throughout this issue are several articles about the end of the war. On p. 8 is a large map of Grant’s operations: “The Surrender of Lee. Some of Grant’s Operations Against Lee in Virginia; of Sherman’s Operations Against Johnston in North Carolina; of Stoneman’s Operations on the Danville and Greensboro Railroad, and of Hancock’s Movement from Staunton.”