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Original Civil War Harper's Weekly Vol. VI No. 312 December 20 1862 Full Edition

$ 31.67

Availability: 40 in stock
  • Condition: Good condition. Binding has mostly come apart. Pages are all there.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Original Civil War era Harper's Weekly Vol. VI No. 312, dated December 20, 1862. Full edition.
    Contents include:
    -Cover image depicting the trials and aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, where 392 prisoners were tried, 303 were sentenced to death, and 16 were given prison terms. Related story found inside.
    -Civil War battles, including the Battle of Fredericksburg, one of the largest and most deadly of the war.
    -A new Christmas story by Charles Dickens, "Somebody's Luggage."
    -Centerfold of the battlements at Fredericksburg.
    -Drawing of Burnside's Principle Commissary Depot at Belle Plains on the Potomac.
    -Drawing of Davis Mills on the Mississippi with Ohio Railroad being built.
    -Drawing of Grand Junction (Tennessee) of the Memphis and Charleston and Mississippi and Ohio Railroads + related story.