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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1116. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, November 9, 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. [463-486]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching; one small tear. News in this issue includes the progress of preparations for the 1862 International Exhibition, and the continuing American Civil War, with information up to the 26th of October. American Civil War illustrations: "Punishment drill in the Federal camp" (p. 467), "Cutting of a Confederate despatch-galley on the Potomac near Freestone Point" (p. 470) Excerpts: 'It is hard that because the Confederate States have renounced their allegiance to the Union, and are strong enough to maintain their separate independence for months, and perhaps years, large departments of manufacturing industry in England and France, upon which the subsistence of millions depend, should be visited with a calamity little short of destruction. The mischief done by privateering, which the great Powers of Europe have agreed to abolish, is as nothing compared with the wholesale suffering which the blockade now being enforced by the Federal Government is causing to nations not in the least implicated in the pending quarrel. … A battle has been fought on the Upper Potomac to the advantage of the Confederates. On the 21st ult. the Federals, to the number of 1736, advanced upon Leesburg. The Federals were commanded by General Stone and the Confederates by General Evans. The former were eventually compelled to abandon the field and fall back across the Potomac with the loss of 600 men, including General Baker, killed. Of these 400 are set down as "missing." The retreating forces reached the river-bank about twenty minutes before nightfall. As there were no means of conveyance across the river, those who could swim plunged into the river, some carrying their arms and others throwing them away. Many were drowned. The Federals were subsequently reinforced, and returned to the charge; but, on the approach of two strong columns of Confederates, again retreated into Maryland. General Baker was Senator for Oregon, and an Englishman by birth. He emigrated, when young, to Illinois and thence to California. He was, we believe, the only Englishman who ever sat in the United States' Senate.'

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