Home > Back to Search Results >
Terrific four page centerfold on the bombardment of Fort Sumter...
Terrific four page centerfold on the bombardment of Fort Sumter...
Item # 707330
April 27, 1861
FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED, New York, April 27, 1861 The front page features a large print: "Excitement on the Battery at Charleston, S.C., During the Bombardment of Fort Sumter".
But certainly the prime feature of this issue is the terrific four page centerfold which is a huge print captioned: "The Bombardment of Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, the 12th and 13th of April, 1861...". Typically this print is cut in half and has various wear as more issues were trimmed. But this issue was never bound nor trimmed so it folds out to one very large print with no cuts & essentially no wear or tears. An uncommonly nice print on the opening battle of the Civil War.
Inside is the Proclamation signed in type: Abraham Lincoln for the calling of the Federal troops. A full page is comprised of three illustrations on using the Dahlgren Howitzer gun. Another full page is the: "Scene on the Floating Battery in Charleston Harbor, S.C. During the Bombardment of Fort Sumter". The back page features a half-page "Plan of Operations in Charleston Harbor".
Sixteen pages and as noted above never bound nor trimmed and in very nice, clean condition.
Category: Yankee
Available Now
$425.00
