Raynors HCA 2017-06
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Bound volume of “Harper’s Weekly/A Journal of Civilization” for the year 1864. Although boards are loose, spine still intact and no issues have been removed. Some minor edge wear and occaisonal tears but in otherwise pretty good shape. Contains tons of Civil War reports and heavy on illustrations. Descriptions are for covers and some inside-page highlights. Expect much more on the inside of these 16-page editions. Classic coverage and artwork of the great American Civil War. Jan. 2: Diagram of the ironclad “Weehawken.” Great inside page on all manner of aerial flight. Jan. 9: Longstreet’s sharpshooters firing on federal supply train. Inside, rebel assault on Fort Saunders. Jan. 16: Averill’s Raid. Inside, advance of the Army of the Potomac (by Waud). Jan. 23: Sufferings in a winter snowstorm on the Michigan Central railway. Inside art; Colored troops liberate slaves in NC. Jan. 30: Scenes from a fire at the Church of the Compania, Santiago, Chile. Inside art: Emancipated slaves -- white and colored. Double truck collage: Winter in Central Park, New York by Thomas Nast. Feb. 6: Cover tribute to Gen. Grant by Thomas Nast. Inside double truck: Halt of a wagon train. Feb. 13: Hoisting flag from aboard Union vessel. Double truck: U.S. sloop of war “Richmond” on blockade duty off Mobile. Feb. 20: Gen. Grant crossing the Cumberland Mountain. Double truck collage: St. Valentine’s Day 1864 (appears to be unsigned Nast). Feb. 27: Art/poem to soldiers who have fallen in the war effort. Inside: Scenes from the Colt factory fire. Double truck collage tribute to birthday of George Washington. March 5: Escaped refugees from Libby Prison. March 12: Full page cover devoted to Major-Gen. William T. Sherman. Inside: Escaping Union officers given refuge by slaves. Double truck collage: Incidents in the life of a sailor. March 19: Wonderful full front of Brig-Gen George A. Custer astride his galloping steed (from Brady photo). Double truck facsimile of the moon taken from Henry Draper’s telescope. March 26: Art/text on the late Col. Ulric Dahlgren. Inside: Gen. Grant gets commission as Lt-Gen. from President Lincoln. Double truck collage of Custer’s movements along the Rapidan. April 2: Art of the plans for the Soldier’s Cemetery at Gettysburg. Double truck collage: The First of April by Thomas Nast. April 9: Metropolitan Fair in New York. Inside art collage: Our Heroines, tribute to nurses by Nast. Full page art: Negroes leaving their homes. April 16: Floral Department of the Great Metropolitan Fair. More scenes inside. April 23: Ladies in attendance in regulation costumes at the fair. More inside. April 30: Tribute to soldiers. Great double truck collage by Thomas Nast, “The Press in the Field,” how journalists get war news to readers. Full page: Massacre at Fort Pillow. May 7: Union scouts in Louisiana. Inside page: Negroes escape from slavery (Waud). May 14: Rebels attack Union gunboats on the Red River. Big Parrott gun on steamer “Richmond.” May 21: Sherman’s advance at Buzzard’s Roost, Ga. Double truck collage: Rebel atrocities throughout the war. May 28: Maj-Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. Inside full page: Grant with quote, “I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.” Double truck: Army of the Potomac sleeping on their arms. June 4: Maj-Gen. William T. Sherman. Inside: Wadsworth’s troops fighting in the Wilderness. June 11: Great Central Fair in Philadelphia. Inside page: President Lincoln and his secretaries. Double truck: Army of the Potomac struggles for the salient near Spotsylvania. June 18: Starved soliders from Rebel prison camps. Double truck: The campaign in Virginia, “On to Richmond” by Nast. June 25: Burning of the steamer “Berkshire” on the Hudson. Double truck: Gen. Barlow charges enemy at Cold Harbor. July 2: Rebel General Robert Edmund Lee. Double truck: Battle of Dallas. July 9: Art/text on Capt. J. Henry Sleeper’s Battery. Double truck collage of Grant’s campaign in Virginia. July 16: Gen. Grant at his headquarters (from Brady photo). Double truck July 4th tribute, “Our Flag” by Thomas Nast. July 23: The sinking of the “Alabama,” off Cherbourg. Inside: Grant’s campaign around Petersburg. July 30: William Fessenden, secretary of the treasury. Double truck: Destruction of Lee’s communications by Gen. Wilson. With Sherman’s campaign in Georgia. Aug. 6: Man with a scythe and poem of tribute to “The Mower in Ohio.” Double truck of Grant’s Petersburg campaign and soldiers in the trenches. Aug. 13: Gen. Hooker rides the lines amid cheering soldiers. Double truck: View of Petersburg from the Davis Battery. Aug. 20: Three cover scenes from Petersburg. Inside art: Christians helping the wounded in the field. Double truck, explosion of mine and assault on Cemetery Hill before Petersburg. Aug. 27: Explosion at City Point. Inside: Double truck collage by Thomas Nast, “Summer in Central Park.” Art of modern women’s fashions. Sept. 3: Council of war during Sherman’s campaign. Inside: Double truck: Farragut’s fleet passing at entrance of Mobile Bay. Thomas Nast, “Compromise with the South” is “dedicated to the Chicago Convention.” Sept. 10: Rev. John McCloskey, bishop of New York. Inside: Farragut’s victory in Mobile Bay. Scenes from Nathan Bedford Forrest’s “Raid into Memphis.” Sept. 17: Harry Davis captures battle flag of Louisiana regiment at Battle of Ezra Church. Striking double truck of Gen. McClellan, Democratic candidate for President. Sept. 24: The late Gen. John Morgan. Double truck collage by Thomas Nast, “The Blessings of Liberty.” Oct. 1: Gen. Warren extends lines across Weldon Railroad. Inside: Sherman takes rebel prisoners. Double truck; Fanciful scene of President Lincoln holding flag while crowds of soldiers “rally round the flag.” Oct. 8: Maj-Gen. Phil Sheridan. Inside: “Great cattle raid” at Harrison’s Landing. Scenes from Winchester. Oct. 15: Gen. Hunt and his artillery chief survey field. Double truck: Thomas Nast collage of the “Chicago (Convention) Platform.” Oct. 22: Maj. Gen-Butler sits outside his tent following battle. Inside scenes from Grant’s and Sheridan’s campaigns. Oct. 29: Scene of three cavalry officers on mounts. Soldiers voting. Rebel prisoners and deserters. Nov. 5: “Phil Sheridan’s Ride to the Front.” Inside: Union refugees coming into the lines. Double truck scenes from “Before Petersburg.” Nov. 12: Gen. Custer presents captured battle flags to War Department. Inside; “How Copperheads Obtain Votes” depicts men taking list of names from tombstones. Double truck collage, “Election Day” by Thomas Nast. Nov. 19: Destruction of the Rebel ram “Albemarle.” This edition also announces the ELECTION of Lincoln-Johnson ticket. Lots of scenes from various battles. Nov. 26: Capture of the privateer “Florida.” Double truck: “Chase of a Blockade Runner.” Dec. 3: Rebel flag of truce boat “Beauregard” travels down Savannah River. Double truck collage of Thomas Nast art related to Thanksgiving. Breathtaking WINSLOW HOMER full page, “Pulling the wishbone.” Dec. 10: Arrival of Union refugees at Kingston, Ga. Double truck of “Sherman’s Grant March through Georgia.” Dec. 17: Maj-Gen. George Thomas. Double truck, exciting view of Gen. Sherman astride his horse. Dec. 24: Collage of the Chief Justices (to date) of the Supreme Court. Double truck collage: “Effects of the Rebellion on the Homes in Virginia.” Dec. 31: Christmas Morning. Double truck, “The Union Christmas Dinner” by Thomas Nast depicts President Lincoln welcoming the poor into a fancy banquet. This issue has pages that came loose with boards.
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