Vol. V—No. 231. 16 pp. [337-352], four columns, w/numerous stories, illustrations and cartoons. Front cover features a portrait of Gen. Ben Butler alongside a lengthy account of his activities leading up to the & Union occupation of Baltimore. Interior illustrations include a handsome sketch of Jefferson Davis and his Confederate cabinet, and another of “The Military Occupation of Baltimore—Major General Butler’s Encampment on Federal Hill.” Plus the Confederate “White House at Montgomery—Rent $5000 a Year,” and the City of Montgomery, as well as the “Quarter of the sixty-Ninth (Irish) Regiment New York State Militia, At Georgetown College, D.C,” and the “Sleeping-Bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Office, Washington,” and the mob attack on U.S. Volunteers at the “Corner of Fifth and Walnut Streets, St. Louis, Missouri.”

Exhibits one small foxed spot on the front cover lower margin. Else near fine. Superb early war issue, fine collectible. In protective sleeve, w/white card backing.  [JP]

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