Boston Morning Journal Newspaper, October 26, 1861 (Civil War)

Charles O. Rogers, Boston, 1861; 20 1/2" x 26 1/2", 4 pages. The Boston Morning Journal for Saturday, October 26, 1861, with much news from the nascent Civil War, begun just six months previous. Notable contents include a proclamation from Abraham Lincoln authorizing Gen. B.F. Butler to raise six regiments of volunteers for the War from the New England states, each soldier to be paid $13 a month and a $100 bounty at the end of the war; a recruiting ad from Brigadier General Wm. W. Bullock of the M.V.M. requesting enlistees for the infantry, sharpshooters, cavalry, and light brigade, with special appeals to the Germans and Irish of Massachusetts to form and fight in their own regiments (a Catholic priest to be provided for every Irish regiment); an extended account of a returned soldier, native of Boston, pvt. Richard Rowe, member of the first regiment of fusiliers, who was shot and captured at Bull Run, relating his experiences and describing the Confederate doctors at Richmond as kindly and able, so much so that a Dr. Gibson there refused to amputate the soldier’s wounded foot. Knowing the boy was from Boston, the rebel doctor assured him that a friend and colleague in that city, Dr. Warren, was expert in such cases and would surely save the soldier’s foot upon his return; a lengthy article on the effects of the Civil War on American relations with England; a report on a large Confederate force being concentrated at Leesburg, and a skirmish near the mouth of the Monocacy River; a lengthy account of the Battle at Ball’s Bluff, together with lists of the killed and wounded from both the California regiment and the Massachusetts 20th; an editorial piece on the War, citing monetary figures and total number of Union combatants, taking note of the fact that the force was composed entirely of volunteers; a substantial article on the culture and politics of cotton as it pertains to free white and slave labor; a report on 200 Rebels who escaped from Maryland to Virginia by seizing a schooner in the Patuxent River; an obituary for General W.H. Sumner; and more. Very Good Plus condition, partial split of the spine fold, 6" in length. Clean, crisp, bright, and supple. Inserted in a custom-made protective folder. Although not marked, both the paper and its folder are from the library of James S. Copley (1916-1973), pre-eminent collector of Americana and owner and C.E.O. of Copley News Service.