CIVIL WAR CLIPS MARCH 1862 HARPER'S WEEKLY SECESSION BURNSIDE REBEL CONGRESS ++

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This listing is for a group of civil war newspaper clippings dated March, 1862. Because of the number of clippings and the way they are organized, I couldn't easily get pictures of them in detail without mixing up the organization. But I will describe in detail as many of them as possible here:
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A group of clippings taken from the March 1, 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly.  They pertain to General Burnside's North Carolina Expedition (also known as the Burnside Expedition), which was a series of engagements fought along the North Carolina Coast between February and June 1862. The expedition was part of Winfield Scott's overall Anaconda Plan, which aimed at closing blockade-running ports inside the Outer Banks. The amphibious operation was carried out primarily by New England troops under Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and assisted by the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Captain Louis M. Goldsborough.
Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a United States Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, as well as countering the raids of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, but suffered disastrous defeats at the terrible Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater. His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns, derived from his last name. He was also the first president of the National Rifle Association.
Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (February 18, 1805 – February 20, 1877) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He held several sea commands during the Civil War, including that of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. He was also noted for contributions to nautical scientific research.
Goldsborough was given command of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron in September 1861, relieving Flag Officer Silas Horton Stringham. In October of that year the Atlantic squadron was split into the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; Goldsborough took command of the North squadron, and Flag Officer Samuel Francis DuPont assumed command of the South squadron. During his command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which he commanded from its inception to September 1862, he led his fleet off North Carolina, where in cooperation with troops under General Ambrose Burnside, he captured Roanoke Island and destroyed a small Confederate fleet.
The clippings also include the portrait of S.B. Brittan, Jr. and the story of his death.  Captain William D. Porter of the Essex offered young S. B. Brittan, Jr. the situation of aide and private secretary, and, with the consent of his parents, it was accepted. On October 24, 1861, Flag-Officer Foote commissioned him a master's mate in the western gunboat squadron.
On the 6th of February, 1862, Flag-Officer Foote attacked Fort Henry, and then was fought the death-fight of brave boy-hero Brittan. Twenty minutes before the surrender of the fort, standing forward on the gun-deck, Captain Porter and Brittan were watching the terrific effect of their firing on the fortifications. At this moment, a forty-two-pound shot from the enemy's works, entering directly over the forward port gun, struck young Brittan, taking off the posterior and coronal portions of his head, and passing on through the bulkhead designed to protect the machinery, entered the middle boiler, and upon impact carried death to several others on board. The young Brittan died instantly.
-Secession meeting to be held tonight; condemned by the NY Evening Post .  "It is a disgrace to the city of New York and the North at that at this moment, when the prospect of the restoration of the power of the Union is becoming so bright, a meeting like this, whose principle of secession, whose object is disunion, whose effect can only be to widen the breach between the sections, should be held in New York."  (This article is incomplete);
-Editorial type article saying that "every law promulgating disunion was treasonable".
-Tennessee Gov. Harris's reaction to northern troops in Nashville;
-Full report of debate in the French senate, in which Napoleon participated;
-Excitement in Memphis - very few Rebel Troops there, legislature scattered, Gov. Harris attempting to rally the people;
-The Return of Cotton (not expected for some time to come);
-The New Rebel Cabinet; The Rebel Congress;
-Determination of Confederate states to burn their cotton;
-Letter of Gov. Joseph Brown of GA urging people not to plant cotton this year;
-Desperate efforts to raise soldiers in the south;
-Lt. Col. Edward Cantwell appointed military governor of Norfolk;
-Arms of the southern confederacy - the blocade run;
-Rebel news from the west;
-The TN legislature;
-The Rebel army in TN falling back from Murfreesboro TN to Decatur, AL.
If you are a collector of Civil War memorabilia, this is a must-have for your collection!
These clippings were removed from a veeery old scrapbook.  They are in delicate condition, but can still be handled without crumbling.  Some of the clippings had been cut apart to fit within the pages of the scrapbook.  They have been reassembled (much like a jigsaw puzzle) and held together on the back by archival-quality mending tissue.
This is NOT Scotch tape!
It contains no acid or lignin and will not cause discoloring or any other damage over time.  It should not be removed.
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