VOL.IX/ NO. 422. 16pp. [49-64] This issue appeared shortly after the reduction of Ft. Fisher, at Wilmington, NC, and in the initial phase of Sherman’s march through the Carolina’s. The front cover features illustrations of Post-Master General Dennison and General H.W. Slocum, Sherman’s left wing commander during his march to the Sea. Also depicted, the new Union ocean-going monitor "Dictator."

Other illustrations include a two page spread of General Sherman at a Christmas dinner and reception at his headquarters in Savannah. Also two pages treating fleet operations opposite Ft. Fisher.

Editorially, the magazine approves of Gen. Butler’s dismissal as an army commander following his miserable performance at Ft. Fisher. Not that the editors felt Butler should necessarily feel badly about being such a sorry soldier —"Certainly it is no shame that to such an effective military governor that he should be proved no soldier. A man’s qualities, however eminent, may not be equal in every direction, and his removal from military command is really no more discreditable to him than the withdrawal from the chair of mathematics of a professor who had no taste for algebra."

In terms of condition, the magazine is slightly yellowed, and its first two pages its cover detached, and exhibits a lightly chipped lower left corner. Else Fine. An intriguing issue.