Raynors HCA 2017-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/1/2017
Bound volume Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 41 issues, from March 1 through Dec. 6, 1862. Each issue typically 16 pages, heavy in artwork and war text. We’ll describe the front pages to give the buyer a flavor of the issues. Count on plenty of war coverage and on-the-scene illustrations for which this publication is famous, with many well-known artists who made their names during this crisis time in America. Volume intact. Expect foxing, spotting, etc., generally in good condition. March 1: Victory at Roanoke Island. March 8: Pair of scenes from the Burnside expedition to North Carolina. March 15: Double issue with “war supplement.” Scenes from Tennessee and the capture of Fort Donelson. March 22: Scene from the fighting at Roanoke Island. March 29: Inventor and commander of the “Monitor” ironclad. April 5: Double issue with “war supplement” from battle at Pea Ridge, Ark. Siege of Island #10 and the fight at New Berne (NC) April 12: Scenes from the fighting at New Bern and around Beaufort, NC. April 19: Explosion of a cartridge factory in Philadelphia. April 26: Double issue with “war supplement”. Scenes from the capture of Island #10; battles in the south-west. May 3: Double issue. Scenes from the war in Virginia and in South Carolina. May 10: The Parrott Gun 30-pounder and scenes from Fort Pulaski. May 17: Double issue. Pair of scenes from the surrender at Fort Macon (NC) and the great battle at Pittsburg Landing. May 24: Double issue. The destruction of the Merrimac and scene from the capture of Fort Macon. May 31: Double issue. Scene sketched by W. Waud on naval engagement on the Mississippi. June 7: President’s order to free slaves in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida following Gen. Hunter’s orders. Art of free blacks marching from Beaufort, SC to Hilton Head. June 14: Various scenes of the war in the south (contrabands, captured soldiers, etc). June 21: The battle before Richmond. June 28: Divers in submarine armor explore wreckage of the Merrimac. July 5: Double issue. Pair of scenes from the Burnside expedition in NC; Gen. Fremont’s pursuit of Gen. Jackson. July 12: Scenes from the war in North and South Carolina. July 19: Scene from the war in Virginia and Secessionville. July 26: Train explosion along the Chickahominy. Aug. 2: President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan review troops at Harrison’s Landing. Inside: Battle of Malvern Hill. Aug. 9: A Rebel raid into Kentucky and a portrait of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Aug. 16: Rebel Morgan and his guerrillas raid into Kentucky. Aug. 23: View of sailor in the masthead of a Union gunboat on the James River in Va. Aug. 30: Gen. McCrook waylaid and murdered by Rebel guerrillas. Sept. 6: Recruiting in Philadelphia for the Bucktail Pennsylvania Regiment. Sept. 13: Gen. Pope’s army crosses the Rappahannock. Sept. 20: Scenes from a “gambling” establishment outside the lines of a Union encampment. Sept. 27: Iron ram prow captured by Union forces; portrait of Brig-Gen Lew Wallace. Oct. 4: Pair of scenes from the war in Maryland. Inside: art/text on the southern commander Robert Edmund Lee. Oct. 11: Battle of Antietam; Burnside’s division carrying the bridge. More inside. Oct. 18: Maryland and Pennsylvania farmers visit the Antietam battefield as dead are being buried. Oct. 25: American family murdered by Sioux Indians in Minnesota. Nov. 1: Stuart’s rebel raiders escape Pennsylvania with their stolen horses. Full page inside art of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Nov. 8: The Hartford National Horse Fair. More inside. Nov. 15: Zouave horsemen gallop through Harper’s Ferry in the Virginia Campaign. Inside art on the Battle at Pocotaligo River. Nov. 22: Portrait (from Brady photo) of Horatio Seymour, gov.-elect of New York. Inside, double truck art of the prison hold of the pirate steamer “Alabama.” Nov. 29: A sutler’s store at Haper’s Ferry. Grand double truck art of Major-Gen. Burnside assuming command of the Army of the Potomac. Dec. 6: Gens. Pleasanton, Bayard and Wyndham reconnoiter Fredericksburg.
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