Front page: building in Fredericksburg, Va. used as a barracks and U.S. Signal Corps station, the tomb of the mother of George Washington, in Fredericksburg, and navigating a North Carolina flat through the canal from Beaufort to Newberne. Other illustrations: distribution of captured Rebel soldier clothing to negro contrabands at Newberne, N.C. View of Newberne from the opposite bank of the Neuse River. Advance of the Union Army on Corinth, Miss., at Lick Creek Bottom. Quarantine Ground and U.S. Government Store Houses on the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Explosion of a Rebel magazine caused by a torpedo near Fredericksburg. Ruins of the railroad bridge over the Pamunkey River, Va. Portraits of Lieutenant, William N. Jeffers, U.S.N., commanding the ironclad steamer Monitor. Thomas H. Hicks, ex-Governor of Maryland, and more. Very fine.
Item Number: FL-63
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