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Confederate answer to Harper's Weekly... General John B. Magruder and General Ambrose Burnside...
Confederate answer to Harper's Weekly... General John B. Magruder and General Ambrose Burnside...
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December 06, 1862
SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS, Richmond, Virginia, Dec. 6, 1862
* John Bankhead Magruder
A very rare publication from the Confederacy which seldom comes to the collector market. Although much of the content was literary in nature, there are news reports and a few illustrations.
A nice feature of this issue is the large front page illustration of one of the more famous generals of the Confederacy: "Major-General John Bankhead Magruder" with the balance of the front page taken up with a lengthy & detailed biography of him, concluding on page 6.
Page 2 has over a full column taken up with: "The Times" which reports on the latest events of the Civil War, a few bits including: "The eyes of the country seem fastened upon Fredericksburg with intense interest...the progress of Burnside has been arrested at that point...abundantly evident that he designed to make Fredericksburg his base...with a quickness resembling intuition, Gen. Lee caught the plan of the former before he had made the first move in the direction of his new base...The town of Fredericksburg was now in a perilous condition...the women & children began to fly from the threatened town & scenes of distress, such as it curdles the blood to think of, occurred...To add to the horror of the scene...the Yankee scoundrels shelled the cars filled with women and children. Can it be possible that a just God can prosper such villains or allow such a war to result in any thing short of their utter destruction? What crimes have not the murdering rascals at Washington to account for?...The Yankees say Stonewall Jackson is in Winchester or its neighborhood..." and much more.
Page 4 has a literary piece which includes 3 prints, and page 4 has a curious article: "A Lady's Opinion of the Man Who Wouldn't Shave" includes an illustration. Page 4 also has a nice print of: "General Ambrose Everett Burnside" which is unusual in that rarely were Yankee military leaders featured in this newspaper. But the biography of him which accompanies the print shows much bias, including: "...He was never considered a very bright cadet as may be judged from the fact that he ranked eighteenth in his class...During the Mexican war he held the position of Second Lieutenant under Stonewall Jackson...married a wealthy lady but his dissipated habits soon reduced their stock of worldly goods to nothingness...He is a man of loose & dissipated habits & was never considered possessed of more than ordinary talent." (see photos).
Eight pages, archival mends across the central folds with some wear here to the back two leaves, generally in nice condition.
Category: Confederate
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