Homer's Cavalry Charge Centerfold! Charleston, Harper's Weekly July 5, 1862

Description

You are bidding on an original complete issue of Harper's Weekly published July 5, 1862. The pages measure 11 x 16 (16 x 22 for center-folios) and this issue includes pages 417-432 So that you can judge condition for yourself, all pages are shown when possible. Great engravings, humor, science, literature, news of the day and wonderful old advertisements.
It is 1862.
The Civil War rages with dozens of battles in many states.
General Grant
has taken
Forts Henry and Donelson
in Tennessee while the Union seizes
Roanoak Island
, controlling Albemarle Sound. Confederate
Gen. Joe Johnston
is injured and Robert E. Lee takes command of the south's armies renaming them the
Army of Northern Virginia
. President Lincoln replaces
Gen. McClellan
and appoints
Gen. Halleck
to lead the Union armies. Meanwhile, the
Homestead Act
opens the west and
President Lincoln
announces he will free slaves at the new year.
In addition, in 1862 the
first bowling ball
was invented and the
first legal tender paper money
is introduced. A New York to San Francisco
telegraph
is completed while the
first pasteurization
test is performed. The
Gattling gun
is patented and the first
baseball
enclosure opens at the
Union Grounds in Brooklyn
.
West Virginia
is admitted to the Union and
Santee Sioux Indians
are hanged for a massacre in Minnesota.
This issue
: Very nice, stiff pages, all attached.
Monster centerfold
!
Cover page engraving
:
Memphis and Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
Before
Richmond
Union Ram Fleet at
Memphis
Brigadier-Generals
Casey & Hooker
Rebels Firing at Train ,
Tunstall's Station, Virginia
"
The War For The Union- 1862 - A Cavalry Charge
" centerfold by
Winslow Homer
The Army of the
Potomac
; Battle of
Fairoaks
Bird's-Eye View Of
Charleston, South Carolina
Last Page "Nigger Speckelatin" Cartoon and Ads
I am not a book or paper dealer so please view pictures to determine condition.
This lot will be packaged in a protective acetate sleeve, packed flat and mailed first class USPS. I will pay half of the just under .00 cost for postage.
Two 1862 issues can be mailed for the same cost as one. Postage overpay will be refunded or ask for invoice before paying.
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Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.