Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 The Brooklyn is at present hourly expected at Charleston, and may take an active part in any future contest at that point. She was launched at New York on the 27th of July, 1858, and took her place in the navy on the 1st of January, 1859. She is by [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 The Steamship ‘Star of the West’ WE publish herewith pictures of the United States steam-sloop Brooklyn, and of the steamship Star of the West, and of the steamship Marion, which three vessels figured so prominently in the movements of last week; and on page 37 we give a large plan [...]

The Steamship ‘Marion,’ seized by the State of South Carolina to be Converted into a Man-Of-War The steamship Marion, 800 tons burden, of the New York and Charleston line, was seized by the State authorities of South Carolina on 10th, to be converted into a vessel of war. She was built here (New York) by [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 We publish on page 33 the portrait of the Rev. Dr. Bachman, of South Carolina, the minister who was selected by the Secession Convention to ask a prayer on the ratification of the Ordinance of Secession. Dr. Bachman is distinguished as a naturalist, but has made himself more conspicuous, latterly, [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 WE have given pictures of the Chicago Zouaves, whose admirable discipline has rendered them an object of general envy among our military folks, We now publish on the preceding; page a picture of the Charleston Zouaves, a corps less generally known, but one which may become pretty conspicuous in the [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 WE publish on page 33, from a photograph sent us from Charleston, South Carolina, a portrait of Judge Magrath, late Judge of the United States District Court at Charleston. Judge Magrath is a lawyer of high standing at the South Carolina bar, and enjoys the respect of the public. He [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 EW publish herewith a portrait of Governor Pickens, the newly-elected Governor of the State of South Carolina. Governor Pickens comes of good revolutionary stock. His grandfather, General Pickens, commanded the American forces at the Battle of the Cowpens. His father, Colonel Pickens, held a military command in the war of [...]

Group of Guns and Gun Carriages Dismantled by Major Anderson at Fort Moultrie— Drawn by an Officer of His Command Image published in Harper’s Weekly, January 26, 1861 Description from Fort Moultrie 1809-1930—A Chronological List of Maps & Photos: Crude woodcut depicting the guns lining Moultrie’s Southwest Angle — those which could most easily be [...]

Entry of Major Anderson’s Command into Fort Sumter on December 26, 1860 Image from Harper’s Weekly

Sketches of Fort Moultrie by an Officer of Major Anderson’s Command Description from Fort Moultrie 1809-1930—A Chronological List of Maps & Photos: “Sketches of Fort Moultrie by an officer of Major Anderson’s Command,” published in the January 12, 1861 edition of Harper’s Weekly. These five illustrations constitute the only visual representation of the defensive measures [...]

Occupation of Castle Pinkney by the Charleston Militia, December 26, 1860 Image from Harper’s Weekly

Harper’s Weekly, December 22, 1860 Christmas-Day Now and Then The Adoration of the Shepards & What Santa Brought Us. Dreams and Reality—Santa Claus Click on image to view larger version

Harper’s Weekly, December 22, 1860                 Representative Lawrence M. Keitt, Representative William Waters Boyce, Senator James Chesnut, Representative John McQueen, Representative John D. Ashmore. Senator James Henry Hammond, Representative Milledge Luke Bonham, and Representative William Porcher Miles From photographs by Mathew Brady Ascribed by some to Winslow Homer [...]

Fort Moultrie (Sullivan’s Island).   Charleston, South Carolina in the Distance — Harper’s Weekly, November 17, 1860 (click on image for other sizes) THE HARBOR OF CHARLESTON. (related article from Harper’s Weekly) We publish on the following page a fine engraving of the City and Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, showing Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan’s [...]

Click on image to access other sizes. While President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s image graced the front page of the November 10, 1860 edition of Harper’s Weekly, there was no accompanying article.  There was however, a short piece on the “Death of Grizzly Adams.’

We publish herewith, as matter of history, the portrait of the famous filibuster Walker, who was executed in Honduras on 12th ult. His life had been eventful and romantic. He was only thirty-six years old when he died. Born at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1824, he was bred a lawyer: his father, a Scotch banker, occupied [...]

His Royal Highness, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, The future king visits America. Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

? Young America Rising at the Ballot Box and Strangling the Serpents Disunion and Secession Columbia: “Well done, Sonny! ‘Go it while you’re young, for when you’re old you can’t.'” The potential for secession and disunion because of the issue of slavery was part of the contentious election campaigns of 1860. The quoted phrase in [...]

Less than a year before the war broke out, Central Park bore little resemblance to the park many of us know today from film and pictures or, for many of us, the opportunity of having visited there. Image information: Winslow Homer, The Drive in the Central Park, New York, September 1860, from Harper’s Weekly, September [...]

The Encampment at Orangeburg, South Carolina We present our readers with a view of the encampment of the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, South Carolina.   The point chosen was in the village of Orangeburg, about eighty miles from the city.   This village is known as one of the most beautiful in the state. [...]

Harper’s Weekly, May 26, 1860 Click on the image below for pdf of page 1 and 2 of May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly with a biographical sketch of Lincoln.

The Republican Wigwam at Chicago, in which the Republican Convention will be held, May 16, 1860 Harper’s Weekly, Saturday May 12, 1860 Republican Wigwam at Chicago. We present herewith a view of the new building yclept the ” Republican Wigwam”—which the Republican clubs of Chicago have built for the National Republican Convention to be held [...]

The accompanying engraving of the well-known fish called by the Japanese the Noomo, is from a sketch obligingly furnished us by the writer of the following letter. It will be viewed with interest by all who remember the excitement produced some years since by the exhibition of a so-called mermaid at Barnum’s, in this city. [...]

CONGRESS On Tuesday 24th, in the Senate, Senator Sumner (Mass.) introduced a bill to secure wages to seamen in case of wreck. Senator Brown (Miss.), a bill to provide for the public printing. Senator Rice (Minnesota) moved that a bill be framed for the organization of the Territory of Dacotah, which was laid over. Senator [...]