NEW YORK HERALD, Aug. 23, 1864  

* Camp Sumter - Andersonville Prison barbarities 

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "FARRAGUT" "Granger Within 500 Yards of Fort Morgan" "Land Operations Against Mobile" "The Union Prisoners In Georgia" "Affecting Narrative of the Sufferings of the Inmates" "Shocking Barbarity of Their Treatment" "Urgent Appeal to President Lincoln" "SHERMAN" "Movements of Wheeler's Rebel Forces--Capture of Trains by the Enemy..." "Sheridan" "Lee Reported Marching Up the Valley with a Large Force" and more.
Additional Civil War reports inside.
Eight pages, very nice condition.

Background: On August 23, 1864, front-page news shifted dramatically between decisive military advancements along the Gulf Coast—where Major General Gordon Granger’s land forces drew within 500 yards of Alabama's Fort Morgan following Rear Admiral David Farragut’s naval triumph at Mobile Bay—and harrowing revelations concerning the catastrophic, inhumane conditions enduring in Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, most notably Camp Sumter at Andersonville, Georgia. The headlines exposed a desperate crisis as horrifying reports detailing rampant starvation, widespread disease, lack of shelter, and severe mortality among captive Federal soldiers surfaced in Northern newspapers, igniting public outrage over the perceived barbarity of their treatment. This desperate plight culminated in direct, impassioned appeals to President Abraham Lincoln to take immediate action or reinstate prisoner exchange programs to rescue the suffering inmates, starkly juxtaposing the immense human toll of the conflict against the Union’s expanding strategic victories.