2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2021
A pair of authentic and complete Harpers Weekly issues, each disbound, 16pp., each with dramatic Black America images, VG. From January 10, 1863, cover engraving, "Rebel Negro Pickets As Seen Through a Field Glass." This circular image shows two black soldiers, one is sitting and the other standing, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. ... plus, March 14, 1863, cover engraving, "Teaching the Negro Recruits the Use of the Minnie Rifle". And more important is the double page engraving, "A Negro Regiment In Action". It depicts the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle to include African-American troops. In that battle, the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers triumphed over a band of pro-Confederate guerrillas in Bates County, Missouri on October 29, 1862.
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