Name/Title
NewspaperEntry/Object ID
JJA.2019.3.36Description
Harper's Weekly, 1861 (newspaper) This is an issue of Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, published in New York on Saturday, November 30, 1861. This paper is No. 257 of Vol. V. The front page features a full-page portrait of a man in a Union officer's uniform, identified by the caption as Major-General Halleck, "Commanding Our Army in Missouri." A short biography continues on the next page. The paper contains news of the war, pieces from various states, and updates from abroad. Several sketches are also printed throughout the pages. These sketches depict the following: the interior of Fort Walker, several ships performing reconnaissance, the "Signalling the Flag-Ship Wabash," "The Winfield Scott losing her masts in the gale of No. 1st & 2nd," "Shell and Solid Shot" and their manufacture," Springfield, MO and Alexandria, VA, a two-page spread of the "Great Expedition…On the Way to Port Royal" and of the bombardment of Forts Walker Beauregard, SC, a procession of General Blenker's division, and Confederate commissioners being brought aboard the "San Jacinto." The newspaper has also printed portraits of Captain S. F. Dupont, Brigadier-General T. W. Sherman, Commodore Wilkes, and Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell. The paper includes an account of the capture of Beaufort, SC, and a chapter from "A Strange Story" by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. Advertisements and political cartoons are printed on the last page.Collection
Ed Kenney CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1861 - 1861Notes
Date: 1861-1861