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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1113. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, October 19, 1861. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

(London: George C. Leighton, 1861)

400 x 280 mm; magazine, disbound from volume XXXIX, without wraps (as issued), and contained within a film fronted bag; pp. [391-414]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching. News in this issue includes the coronation of the king of Prussia (with illustrations), and the continuing American Civil War, with information up to the 5th of October, as reported in New York. American Civil War illustrations: "Fort Ocracoke, on Beacon Island, North Carolina, destroyed by fire on the 17th ult. by the Federalists", and "A Confederate deserter coming into the Federal lines at Munson's Hill" (p. 411). Excerpts: 'The Confederate forces opposite Washington have evacuated their lines and fallen back on Manassas Junction. The Federals have advanced and occupied the deserted positions. Great devastation was committed by the Federal troops on the property of the resident population, quite irrespective of their politics. General M'Clellan has issued an order denouncing these excesses, and menacing the perpetrators with the penalty of death. The intrenchments thrown up by the Confederates were of a very inferior kind, and excite the contempt of the Unionists. … The course of the President in cancelling the liberating clause of General Fremont's proclamation is still much canvassed by the public. The Democrats and Conservative Republicans support the President; the Abolitionists and Radical Republicans support Fremont. Parker Pillsbury writes in the Anti-Slavery Standard:- "Political flumes, floodgates, and embankments are now all swept away, and one whelming deluge of devotion to the Union, as it was, with slavery eternised, is now sweeping over the country from ocean to ocean. Only the pebble-stoned protest of a few faithful Abolitionists (alas, how very few!) any longer obstruct its terrible course." … Mr. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, has made a speech before the Republican Convention at Worcester favourable to the idea of making the war one of liberation to the slaves as the only means of obtaining a solid peace. Mr. Sumner is the first professional politician who has taken this ground.'

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