HARPER’S WEEKLY - VICKSBURG & GETTYSBURG CONTENT - AUGUST 8, 1863

HARPER’S WEEKLY  - VICKSBURG & GETTYSBURG CONTENT - AUGUST 8, 1863

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Vol. VII,--No. 343. 16 pp. [492-512], 15” x 11, 4 columns w/ numerous illustrations & cartoons. Slight chipping along left margins, else fine.

Front page features story of the surrender of Port Hudson and twin illustrations—“Saluting the Old Flag at Port Hudson, July 9, 1863”, and “The Formal Surrender of Port Hudson.” Other illustrations include Vicksburg [“Abraham, Who Was Blown “Free Mile” In Da Air”], and “The Siege of Vicksburg—Huts on the Hillside.” As well as “The Opening of the Mississippi—Arrival of the Steamer “Imperial” At New Orleans From St. Louis, July 16, 1863.”

Gettysburg illustrations include a double-page panorama of “Longstreet’s Attack Upon Our Left Centre—Blue Ridge in the Distance”. Also “General Crawford’s Charge on the Rebel Lines”—“Attack of the Louisiana Tigers on a Battery of the Eleventh Corps.” Not forgetting “The Army of the Potomac—Execution of Three Deserters”, and “The Attack on Fort Wagner—The Stormers Advancing Under Fire” [w/ mention of Colonel Shaw & the 54th Massachusetts].

Superb issue in superb condition, containing battle news from July 1863, and Civil War month in all theaters of war. In protective sleeve, w/white card backing.  [jp/ld][ph:L]

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