"Harper's Weekly" for May 11, 1861 with a large illustration of the 69th Irish regiment embarking on USS James Adger for the war

"Harper's Weekly" for May 11, 1861 with a large illustration of the 69th Irish regiment embarking on USS James Adger for the war

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Updated at 9:15 pm on March 14: This has been sold. An original issue of Harper's Weekly from May 11, 1861 that includes a large illustration of the 69th Irish regiment embarking on USS James Adger for the war. The ship was a sidewheel steamer and was named after James Adger, an Irish-American merchant who was born in County Antrim and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1793. He became one of the wealthiest and most influential merchants of antebellum Charleston. Col. Wilson, of Wilson's Brigade, is featured on the cover. Also included, these images: View of Fort McHenry, Baltimore Burning of the bridge at Canton, MD, by the mob Rendezvous of the Vanguards at Halltown, VA to march on Harper's Ferry Burning of the U.S. Arsenal at Harper's Ferry March of the Vanguards on Harper's Ferry View of Annapolis, with the "Constitution" in the foreground practice battery at Annapolis Target practice from the Naval Battery Naval monument on the grounds of the Naval School a

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