Recollections of a Leslie's Special Artist [manuscript], 1861 May.

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Recollections of a Leslie's Special Artist [manuscript], 1861 May.

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Civil War manuscript, written for Leslie's Illustrated Newpapers, "Recollections of a Leslie's Special Artist in the Civil War, No. 1, Baltimore, Generals Butler and Banks and the baffled insurrectionists." Schell describes the response in New York City to Fort Sumter, his hiring by Frank Leslie, his journey to Baltimore via Annapolis, the mood of the city and its southern sentiment, occupation by Ben Butler's troops, seizure of arms and ammunition secreted by secessionists, a parade by firemen enlisting in a Union regiment, the arrest of police marshall George P. Kane and the board of police commissioners, the subsequent furor over presidential denial of habeus corpus, the arrival of additional Union troops, and comments on Ben Butler.

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Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880

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British born American publisher. From the description of Letters, 1875. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81189767 Frank Leslie (1821-1880) was an American engraver, illustrator and publisher of family periodicals. Born Henry Carter in Ipswich, England, he had an early interest in engraving and printing and by age 20 was superintendent of engraving for the Illustrated London News . He came to the United States in 1848 and began publishing illustrat...

Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

Kane, George P., fl. 1850-1861.

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