Now ready. Price twenty-five cents. Embellished with 40 illustrations beautifully drawn and engraved. : Heroic incidents, personal adventures and anecdotes of the Civil War in America. Being a collection of the most interesting and exciting events of the
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Now ready. Price twenty-five cents. Embellished with 40 illustrations beautifully drawn and engraved Heroic incidents, personal adventures and anecdotes of the Civil War in America. Being a collection of the most interesting and exciting events of the present remarkable crisis in our history. This volume, which is elegantly printed, is intended to preserve in the recollection of the nation those numerous acts of heroic daring and endurance which have already made the present unhappy war so notable ... This is, par excellence, a book for summer traveling---the incidents being told in simple language, without the slightest attempt at that great disfigurement to all history, sensational writing, and every incident bears upon its face the stamp of undoubted truth
Description
Frank Leslie's Incidents of the Civil War in America was published in 1862., Printed in blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Leslie (6)5777.F.25b (McAllister)
A remarkable book. Now ready: Journal of Alfred Ely, a prisoner of war in Richmond. : Edited by Charles Lanman. 1 vol., 12mo, illustrated with a steel plate portrait of Alfred Ely, and a wood engraving of the prision at Richmond. Price, $1.00. This work g
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A remarkable book. Now ready: Journal of Alfred Ely, a prisoner of war in Richmond Edited by Charles Lanman. 1 vol., 12mo, illustrated with a steel plate portrait of Alfred Ely, and a wood engraving of the prision at Richmond. Price, $1.00. This work gives a minute account of the adventures in Virginia of the Hon. Alfred Ely, member of Congress from New York, who was captured at the Battle of Bull Run, and confined at Richmond for more than five months as a prisoner of war
Description
The Journal of Alfred Ely was published in New York in 1862., The illustration, signed A.H. Jocelyn N.Y., bears the caption: The prison at Richmond., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
D. Appleton and Company
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 D Apple (2)5786.F.51d (McAllister)
Yankee notions for Feb.
Title
Yankee notions for Feb
Description
Thomas W. Strong published Yankee notions in New York from 1852 to 1875., Printed on rose-colored paper., The illustration shows a Yankee character addressing a British one, with the caption: Brother Jonathan.--See here, Master Bull, your "strict neutrality" dodge is played out. When I get rid of my present trouble I may have a bone to pick with you, that's all., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press fo r Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Strong, Thomas W.
Date
[between 1862 and 1865?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Strong 5796.F.160a (McAllister)
The only reliable illustrated is Frank Leslie's newspaper : no. 344, and supplement no. 345, for the present week. Turn over.
Title
The only reliable illustrated is Frank Leslie's newspaper no. 344, and supplement no. 345, for the present week. Turn over
Description
On verso: Contents. The Battle of Williamsburgh, Va. (Full page.) The Capture of New Orleans by the national gunboats. (Double page.) ..., The Battle of Williamsburg took place May 5, 1862., Imprint from colophon., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Leslie (2)5786.F.93b (McAllister)