Author: Collins, Wilkie
Title: "No Name" (Chps. XIII, cont'd, and XIV) in Harper's Weekly (May 10, 1862)
Description: New York, 1862. First Edition. 0 pp. Disbound. McLenan, John. COMPLETE AND ORIGINAL ISSUE. NOT A REPRINT. This RARE historic document shows usual wear to spine where disbound and light dampstaining to top and bottom edges and bottom corner of pages, also minor spottting to cover and stray foxing throughout. The issue print the continuation of Chapters XIII and XIV of "No Name" by Wilkie Collins with 2 illustrations by John M'Lenan. Cover article on and portrait of Major-General O.M. Mitchell known for his "brilliant exploits in Northern Alabama and Mississippi." Also on cover, illustration of a "Rebel Captain Forcing Negroes to Load Cannon under the Fire of Berdan's Sharp-Shooters" by "Mr. Mead." Also, full-page engraving of New Orleans ".Taken by the Union Forces, April 24, 1862) and on opposing page two illustrations: "Flag-Officer Farragut's Gulf Squadron and Commodore Porter's Mortar Fleet" and "Reconnaisance of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi, by Gun-Boats from Flag-Officer Farragut's Squadron." In addition, full-page illustration of "The Approaches to New Orleans by Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne" by A. Richardson and another of the Mississippi River from Cairo to the Gulf of Mexico, "showing New Orleans, Memphis, Fort Wright, Island Number Ten, Columbus, etc." Also, 2 illustrations related to the attack on Fort Wright, April 18 1862, showing the federal flotilla descending the Mississippi and the "Reconnaissance of Fort Wright by the Gun-Boats and Mortar Fleet.". Very Good.

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