Name/Title
NewspaperEntry/Object ID
JJA.2019.3.37Description
This is an issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, published in New York on March 15, 1862. This is No. 239 of Vol. XIII. This specific issue is a "double number" priced at 10 cents. The paper reports on the battle of Fort Donelson, with various sketches, on one side of the paper. The paper can then be opened fully and refolded to read the text on the opposite side. The front page claims: "We this week issue the first double number of an Illustrated Newspaper ever published in America…" The front page features two sketches. The first, a sketch by Henri Lovie, is titled, "Capture of Fort Donelson -Wounded Soldiers Burning To Death On the Battlefield," and depicts one man on the ground trying to drag himself forward through smoke. The second sketch takes up the bottom half of the front page and is titled, "The War in Tennessee-Group of Rebel Prisoners Captured at Fort Donelson, On the Morning After the Surrender, Clothed in Bed Blankets, Pieces of Carpeting, Etc." This image features a group of the aforementioned prisoners in the foreground with a line of Union soldiers on horseback as a guard behind them. The hill and fort are depicted in the background. The paper includes numerous other sketches, including depictions of "The Approach of the U.S. Gunboats to Fort Henry," "The Landing of U.S. Troops in Tennessee," Major R. E. A. Kimball, Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, Major-General J. A. Garfield, General S. B. Buckner, a map of the "War in the West" (MO, Arkansas, IL, IN, KY, TN), and a two-page spread of the "Storming of Fort Donelson." The text includes war updates and advertisements for such items as a cure for consumption, bulletproof soldiers vests, and Kentucky bourbon.Collection
Ed Kenney CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1862 - 1862Notes
Date: 1862-1862