1862 Death of Ex-President Tyler, First Edition — Brooklyn Eagle Jan 21 For Sale

📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜This is **The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Tuesday, January 21, 1862** — Vol. 21, No. 17 — one cent, printed and sold on the day Brooklyn first absorbed the news that a former President of the United States had died in the capital of the Confederacy.John Tyler — the tenth President, the man who had annexed Texas, the Virginian who in his final years had cast his lot with secession — died on January 18, 1862, in Richmond. He was the only President ever to die as a citizen of a foreign government. By January 21st, Brooklyns paper of record had it in print: **DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT TYLER. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. FIRST EDITION.**This is not a retrospective. This is the morning paper. This is Brooklyn reading, over breakfast, that a man who had once sat in the White House was now gone — a Founding Fathers son, a President, a traitor, a curiosity, a complicated American — dead in the Confederate capital while Union soldiers marched south to break the country he had helped divide.The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was already one of Americas great metropolitan dailies — the paper Walt Whitman had edited fourteen years earlier, the paper of a city sending thousands of its sons to war. On January 21, 1862, it carried one of the stranger obituaries the republic had ever required.---## 🇺🇸 JOHN TYLER — THE PRESIDENT WHO JOINED THE ENEMY 🇺🇸John Tylers death in January 1862 was as strange as his life had been. A Virginia aristocrat and states rights absolutist, he had served as William Henry Harrisons Vice President and ascended to the presidency after Harrisons death just 31 days into office — earning the nickname "His Accidency" from a political establishment that never fully accepted him. He was expelled from his own Whig party while sitting President.By 1861, Tyler had chaired the failed Washington Peace Conference and, when it produced nothing, cast his vote for Virginias secession. He won election to the Confederate House of Representatives but died before taking his seat — on January 18, 1862, in his room at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond.The Union government declined to acknowledge his passing. Lincolns White House did not order flags lowered. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, however, had a paper to sell, and history does not wait for political comfort. This first edition of January 21st carries his death notice, his life sketch, and all the other news of a nation at war — the Western Theater advancing, the blockade tightening, Brooklyn watching and reading and waiting.---## ⚔️ THE CIVIL WAR — JANUARY 1862 ⚔️January 1862 was a winter of anticipation on both sides. Grant was still months away from Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. McClellans Army of the Potomac sat in winter quarters outside Washington. The Burnside Expedition was assembling on the Carolina coast. The Brooklyn Daily Eagles war columns would have been dense with dispatches, troop movements, naval intelligence, and the relentless machinery of a nation mobilizing at unprecedented scale.This paper captures that exact moment — before the great campaigns of 1862 broke open, when the war was still finding its shape, and when a former President dying in Richmond was the strangest possible symbol of how completely the old republic had fractured.---## 📰 THE PAPER ITSELF 📰- **Publication:** The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- **Date:** Tuesday, January 21, 1862
- **Volume / Issue:** Vol. 21, No. 17
- **Price:** One Cent
- **Key Headlines:** Death of Ex-President Tyler · Sketch of His Life · First Edition
- **Format:** Full broadsheet issue, multiple pages
- **Size:** Approximately 22" × 16" per sheet (as measured in photographs)---## 🔍 CONDITION & TRANSPARENCY 🔍**Completeness:** Multiple pages/sheets present — appears to be a complete or near-complete issue. Please examine all photographs carefully.**Authenticity:** Guaranteed original letterpress printing from January 21, 1862 — not a facsimile or reproduction.**Condition:** Consistent with its 163-year age. Toning and light browning throughout the newsprint, as expected for mid-19th-century paper. Some edge wear visible. Text remains legible across the pages. A solid, displayable example of a genuinely rare Civil War daily.Text is legible throughout. I have photographed every spread — please review all images carefully and dont hesitate to ask for additional close-ups before purchasing.---## 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION 📦- Housed in an acid-free archival folder to protect the 163-year-old newsprint
- Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival
- Fully tracked for your peace of mind---A President died in the Confederate capital. Brooklyn printed the news. Someone kept the paper. Now it can be yours.---## 🏷️ TAGS1862 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Death of President Tyler, John Tyler Death 1862, Civil War Newspaper 1862, Ex-President Tyler Obituary, Confederate President Death, Brooklyn Eagle January 1862, Civil War Home Front, Antique Newspaper 1862, Civil War Primary Source, John Tyler Civil War, Confederate Richmond 1862, Brooklyn Civil War History, 10th President Death, Victorian Newspaper Ephemera