American Historical Ephemera & Photography

The New York Times. Vol. X, No. 2968. New York: N.p., 27 March 1861. 8pp.  Column 6 states what many tried to deny: "Slavery the Basis of the New Confederacy," although many maintained it was about "states' rights," not slavery. With additional reporting on the South Carolina State Convention and the situation in Texas. -- The Dollar Newspaper. Vol XIX, No. 30. Philadelphia: N.p., 24 July 1861. Folio, 4pp.  The first page contains a novelette, but the second page covers the United States' defeat at Manassas. -- New-York Tribune. Vol. XXI, No. 1053. New York: N.p.,16 November 1861. Folio, 8pp. Map of Beaufort, SC on p. 2. -- The New York Times. Vol. XI, No. 3192. New York: N.p., 14 December 1861. Folio, 8pp. Front with map of "The Mississippi, From Cairo to Memphis." Below is an article "Down the Mississippi." Focus on troops pouring into Kentucky, in preparation for a large battle. Inner pages with other war news. -- Together, 4 newspapers, folio, disbound, condition generally good, some toning especially at creases

[With:] Journal of Commerce, jr. 3 issues (incomplete run). New York: N.p., 1861. Folio, 3 issues, numbering: Vol. XV, No. 6593,17 April 1861; Vol. XVI, No. 6672,18 July 1861; Vol XVI, No. 6697,16 August 1861. (Some toning, especially at folds.) Folio, 4pp., homefront affairs, mostly commercial including the arrival of ships. In No. 6672, the first paragraph begins: "We have just passed through a decade remarkable for brilliancy and the rapid growth of our country in wealth, the development of its resources and general progress. From our career of brilliant progress we appear suddenly at the close of the decade to have taken the retrogressive path and plunged into a condition of ruined fortune and the barbarous atrocities of civil war."