Full front page Civil War map... Very displayable...
Item # 710726
September 12, 1861
NEW YORK HERALD, Sept. 12, 1861
* Rare full front page map
* Battle of Carnifex Ferry
The entire front page is taken up with a huge and very detailed map headed: "THE NATIONAL BATTLE GROUND. The Armies of the Potomac--Encampments of Over 300,000 Armed Men--Scene of the Coming Decisive Conflict" which shows from Washington, D.C. & Alexandria, northwest to Buckeystown, Point of Rocks, and Leesburg, with the Bull Run battlefield to the southwest.
Very rare to find an entire front page taken up with a map. War reporting is inside.
Eight pages, very nice condition. Great for display.
Background: The September 12, 1861, issue of the New York Herald carries immense historical significance as a visual and journalistic artifact capturing the profound anxiety and shifting strategies of the early American Civil War. By dedicating its entire front page to a massive, detailed tactical map of the Potomac region—a staging ground teeming with over 300,000 soldiers—the newspaper vividly illustrates the intense public anticipation for a "decisive conflict" near Washington, D.C., following the humiliating Union defeat at First Bull Run two months prior. While the front page visually underscores Major General George B. McClellan’s frantic fortification of the capital, the inner pages detail the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, fought on September 10, 1861, in western Virginia. In this engagement, Union forces under Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans successfully pressured a fortified Confederate brigade under John B. Floyd into a nighttime retreat across the Gauley River. This Union victory was strategically pivotal; it dismantled Confederate resistance in the Kanawha Valley, secured the region under Federal control, and directly empowered the political movement that allowed West Virginia to break away from the Confederacy and achieve separate statehood in 1863. Together, the issue stands as a rare, highly collectible snapshot of a nation bracing for a prolonged, bloody stalemate while securing its first critical territorial victories in the West.
* Rare full front page map
* Battle of Carnifex Ferry
The entire front page is taken up with a huge and very detailed map headed: "THE NATIONAL BATTLE GROUND. The Armies of the Potomac--Encampments of Over 300,000 Armed Men--Scene of the Coming Decisive Conflict" which shows from Washington, D.C. & Alexandria, northwest to Buckeystown, Point of Rocks, and Leesburg, with the Bull Run battlefield to the southwest.
Very rare to find an entire front page taken up with a map. War reporting is inside.
Eight pages, very nice condition. Great for display.
Background: The September 12, 1861, issue of the New York Herald carries immense historical significance as a visual and journalistic artifact capturing the profound anxiety and shifting strategies of the early American Civil War. By dedicating its entire front page to a massive, detailed tactical map of the Potomac region—a staging ground teeming with over 300,000 soldiers—the newspaper vividly illustrates the intense public anticipation for a "decisive conflict" near Washington, D.C., following the humiliating Union defeat at First Bull Run two months prior. While the front page visually underscores Major General George B. McClellan’s frantic fortification of the capital, the inner pages detail the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, fought on September 10, 1861, in western Virginia. In this engagement, Union forces under Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans successfully pressured a fortified Confederate brigade under John B. Floyd into a nighttime retreat across the Gauley River. This Union victory was strategically pivotal; it dismantled Confederate resistance in the Kanawha Valley, secured the region under Federal control, and directly empowered the political movement that allowed West Virginia to break away from the Confederacy and achieve separate statehood in 1863. Together, the issue stands as a rare, highly collectible snapshot of a nation bracing for a prolonged, bloody stalemate while securing its first critical territorial victories in the West.
Category: Yankee
