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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1104. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, August 24, 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. [175-206]; several woodcuts. Please note: the coloured supplement "The Chase: Time of George II" is not included. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching. News in this number includes the progress of the American Civil War, with information up to the 10th of August. Some excerpts: "Full Southern accounts of the battle of Bull Run inform us that Jefferson Davis did not arrive on the field of battle until after the day was won, and that it was the arrival of General Kirby Smith with 4000 fresh troops belonging to Johnston's army which decided the fortunes of the day. Not more than half of Johnston's division effected their junction with Beauregard in season to take part in the fight. An engine-driver bringing troops up from Richmond purposely ran the train off the track and delayed the arrival of the reinforcements. He was shot after confessing his treachery to the cause he was supposed to be serving. General Bee, of South Carolina, Colonel Bartow, of Georgia, and Colonel Johnson, of South Carolina, were slain on the Confederate side. Colonel Wade Hampton, the richest man in the South, was seriously wounded in the cheek. General M'Dowell has at last made a report of the Federal loss at Bull Run:- Killed, 19 officers and 462 men; wounded, 64 officers and 947 men; missing, 40 officers and 1176 men. He also reports the loss of 23 pieces of artillery, 100 boxes of cartridges, 87 boxes of rifled-cannon ammunition, 30 boxes of old firearms, 13 loaded provision-waggons, 3000 bushels of oats, 2500 muskets, and 8000 knapsacks and blankets."

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