1862-65 The Annual Cyclopaedia, Illust, CIVIL WAR Lincoln Booth Douglass Grant

  

This is a collection of four consecutive Civil War-era volumes of the publication The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events. The volumes cover the happenings of the years 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865, and contain much information about the Civil War. There is extensive coverage of Abraham Lincoln, including the verbatim text of his Emancipation Proclamation and Second Inaugural Address, as well as reporting on his assassination and funeral train (including many references to John Wilkes Booth and the "conspirators"). The volumes contain engraved portraits (with tissue guards), including frontispiece engravings of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S.

Other engraved portraits include President Andrew Johnson, Gen. Thomas, and Admiral David G. There are also numerous illustrations and maps (both in-text and full page), including a large, fold-out Railway Map of the Southern States.

" Included in the 1864 volume is a letter from Frederick Douglass, advocating for "the complete abolition of every vestige, form, and modification of slavery in every part of the United States; perfect equality for the black man in every State before the law, in the jury-box, at the ballot-box, and on the battle-field; ample and salutary retaliation for every instance of enslavement or slaughter of prisoners of any color. The volumes contain comprehensive coverage of the major figures, battles, and events of the Civil War including the surrender at the Appomattox Court House, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Bull Run, Antietam, the attack on Fort Sumter, Robert E. There is even a mention of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin. The volumes are bound in three-quarter leather with marbled covers, and gilt lettering and five raised bands on the spines.

Each volume has 800+ pages with an Index at the back. The volumes were published in 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866 (Volumes II, III, IV, and V) by D. Appleton & Company in New York.