VOL. VIII/ NO. 372. 16pp. [97-112] This issue appeared during the lull between the November Mine Run Campaign and General Grants Overland Campaign launched in late April 1864.  Not surprisingly  the cover illustration—“Our Flag Is There!”—features the navy, and  the stars and stripes being hoisted by the officers and sailors of one of the Union gunboats blockading off Mobile. Other “Off Mobile” lithos depict the USS Kennebec chasing the rebel steamer “Grey Jacket”,  as well as a magnificent spread of the United States Sloop of  War “Richmond On Blockade Duty, Off Mobile.” 

Rear pages offer sketches of the “Headquarter of the United States Sanitary Commission at Gettysburg, PA,”  western Indian chiefs “Leatada, of the Mojaves”, and “Antonia Azul, of the Pinos”, as well as Union Quartermaster-in-chief, M.C. Meigs. 

Editorially, the magazine addresses the  “Gross Injustice” of  the unequal pay for colored troopsin the following terms—“There is one gross injustice to our soldiers which Congress should not lose a week in correcting, and that is the pay of the colored troops. If colored men are apes, don’t enlist them. If the prejudices of race and color is insuperable, yield to it. But why should the American people do an unpardonably mean thing? If we are ashamed to acknowledge the heroes of Milliken’s Bend, at Port Hudson, at Fort Wagner—upon every field, in fact, and in every battle where they have been tried—let us at least be manly enough to say to them, “We can not treat you honorable, so go home.” 

In terms of condition, the magazine is slightly yellowed, w/one inch tear at bottom of cover page. Else VG to Fine, handsomely mounted against white card within slipcase. Excellent collectible.