Civil War Times Illus Dec 1972

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Civil War Times Illus Dec 1972

Cover: Infantry Corporal 22nd NY State Militia

Back Cover: Pvt Thomas Johnson, Co. B 1st Regmt, New York Mounted Rifles

In This Historic Issue:

The "Weehawken's" Fearful Accident
Poor Commander Duncan had his command barely 18 hrs before she went down
Eyewitness sketch of Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 7 Apr 1863
Rear Adm John A Dahlgren, commander South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Rear Adm Andrew J Foote
USS Philadelphia, one of the beseiging vessels at Charleston
rare photo of Federal Monitors in action firing at Sullivan's Island 8 Sep 1863
Diagram of the monitor USS Weehawkeh, sunk in Charleston harbor 6 Dec 1863
Admiral DuPont's floating machine shop in Charleston harbor
The Weehawken's Grave

Gov John Letcher, Va.
Virginia's Wartime Executive
A reluctant Rebel, this old Democrat proved to be one of the most loyal of the South's war governors
Brig Gen Henry Alexander Wise, Gov of Va 1856-1860
Richmond as seen from the Manchester side of the James River
The old Clifton House, Richmond
Then Sec of War Judah P Benjamin and later Lt Gen Thomas J Kackson
View of the Washington Monument in Capitol Square, Richmond
The capital in Richmond, after the evacuation
Ruins of the Virginia Military Institute after Hunter's raid in Jun 1864
View in Richmond after the fires whicb broke out
Union soldier on guard un burnt-out district of Richmond

The Battle That Almost Was---Manassas Gap
In the wake of Gettysburg, a bumbling subordinate may have cost Meade his opportunity to crush Lee decisively
Front Royal
Gen Robert E Lee
View of Williamsport Md where Lee crossed the Potomadc in his retreat from Gettysburg
Maj Gen George G Meade
Warrenton Va
Scenes in Culpepper Va
Lt Gen Ambrose P Hill
Map of the Shenandoah Valley
Maj Gen Meade photographed with his staff
Maj Gen William H French

A Bounteous Reward
4th Wisconsin Cavalry

"The Earth Shook and Quivered"
Black recruits at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia ca. 1863
Song of the colored division before charging the crater, with sheet music
The War in Va,---22nd Colored Regiment
Sketch of the charge of the colored troops at The Crater
Negro Quarters, Army of the James
Pontoon Bridge at Deep Bottom
A group of Richmond Negroes, photo'd soon after the Federal occupation of the city Apr 1865

Twilight of a Treasury
The last acting treasurer of the Confederacy tells his own story of the fleeing government and its money in the days following Appomattox
Evacuation and burning of Richmonf following the fall of Petersburg in Apr 1865
Gen Joseph Eggleston Johnson commanded last active Confederate Army after Lee's surrender
Brig Gen Basil W Duke, commanded part of Davis' bodyguard
Confederate Postmaster John H Reagan
Sec of War and Maj Gen John C Breckinridge
Confederate Treasury Notes
The Burt Mansion, Abbeville SC


The War in Words

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