American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

Broadside (17 1/8 x 14 in.). Title and imprint within double-rule border, 4 columns. (Creased, 5 1/4 in. tear with loss to blank lower margin, some light spotting.)

RARE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS

Reporting on the Glorious News" of the unanimous vote of both branches of the Texan Congress to annex Texas. "The United States Steamship Princeton, Commodore Stockton arrived at Annapolis from Galveston on the 2d inst. bringing the highly important intelligence that both Houses of the Texian Congress had consented to Annexation on the terms of the joint resolution of the U.S. Congress."

Included are excerpts from the Washington Union's account of the annexation, and the text of President Anson Jones' message of 16 June 1845.