Harper’s Weekly Illustrates and Reports the War in These Eighteen 1862 Issues

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Of course Harper’s Weekly is the most famous of the war-dated illustrated newspapers. This grouping of 18 issues are each 16pp., complete and each issue disbound. We have listed the front page engraving, yet clearly each issue has numerous wood cuts on the interior pages as well. Overall condition is VG. The collections includes; January 11, 1862, ftpg has print: "Sinking the Stone Fleet in Charleston Harbor"; January 25, 1862, Ffrontpage illustration entitled 'Little Mac Out Again' which shows McClellan on horseback; February 1, 1862, ftpg. shows: "Destruction of a Schooner off Cumberland Inlet, Georgia, by the boats of the 'Alabama'"; February 22, 1862, Ftpg. shows: "Gun Deck of a Mississippi Gun-boat Engaged in the Attack on Fort Henry" plus an illustration of "Commodore Foote"; March 29, 1862, : "A Thrilling Scene in East Tennessee --Colonel Fry and the Union Men Swearing by the Flag"; April 5, 1862, ftpg: "The Rebel Steamer 'Nashville' Running the Blockade at Beaufort, North Carolina" ; April 19, 1862, ftpg: “Shipping Artillery at Alexandria, Va.'”; May 17, 1862, ftpg: 'Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitering with Dark Lanterns' by WINSLOW HOMER; May 24, 1862, ftpg: "Reoccupation of Norfolk by the Union Forces Under General Wool"; June 28, 1862, Two front pg. illustration entitled "Closing Scene of the Naval Engagement Before Memphis, Tennessee" and "Colonel Ellet's Ram Approaching the City of Memphis, Tennessee, to Demand its Surrender."; July 19, 1862, ftpg "Brigadier-Generals George M'Call and Fitz John Porter" and the "White House" on the Pamunky”; August 9, 1862, ftpg. is an illustration of: "The Late Martin Van Buren, Ex-President of the U.S”; August 16, 1862, ftpg. illustration of: "John Morgan, The Highwayman of Kentucky"; October 18, 1862, ftpg: "Major-General Franz Sigel, Commanding Twelfth Corps Army of the Potomac”; November 1, 1862, ftpg. showing: "The Town of Perryville, Kentucky, Scene of the Recent Battle" and "The Pirate 'Alabama’”; November 22, 1862, ftpg: "Hon. Horatio Seymour, Governor-Elect of the State of New York"; November 29, 1862, ftpg. illus. of: 'Gen. Burnside', with a biography of him as well; December 6, 1862, ftpg: "Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, United States Army". (18 issues)

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