A Bloody butchery, by the British troops: or, The runaway fight of the regulars
Subtitle: Being the particulars of the victorious battle fought at and near Concord ... between two thousand regular troops, belonging to his Britannic majesty, and a few hundred provincial troops ... : To which is annexed, a Funeral elegy on those who were slain in the battle
Edition: (The second edition corrected, with some additions.)
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 13839
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Russell at his printing-office, removed next to John Turner, Esq; in the Main-Street.
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Salem [Mass.], N.E
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Poetry; Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775; Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775; Campaigns; Registers of dead
Other titles: Funeral elegy, to the imortal [sic] memory of those worthies, who were slain in the battle of Concord, April 19, 1775.
Notes: "From E. Russell's Salem Gazette, or Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser, published on Friday, April 21, 1775." Also includes information dated Salem, April 25 (from the Essex gazette), and Salem, May 5. The funeral elegy appeared in the May 26 issue of the Essex journal and Merrimack packet.

For an account of other editions of this title, cf. Streeter, Thomas W. Americana--beginnings, Morristown, N.J., 1952, p. 49-51.

Relief cut of forty-two coffins, with the names of the dead, at head (Reilly 1218); printed area measures 48.2 x 36.0 cm.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Shipton & Mooney 13839