Civil War Again

The Argus lias competed arrangements to offer its readers somethiug iva'ly svorthy o be called tlie cMaNce of a Ufe tíMb. T" oftVr tbem someïhing of well-known thorougbiy estabHshl and extraordinary ,'altie, at such a ridicuusly small sum that it seems aluiost impossible. Containing Over One Thousand of the Illustrations That appeared ia Harper's Weekly During the War. (A file of Harper's WeeTcly during the toar is now loorth $100.) 832 immense folio pages 16 x 11$ inches. Equal to 3000 pases of nsual röyal octavo size. The COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED, ORIGINAL, AUTHÈNTIC WORK, which has always lOld from 16.00 to $30.00. Issued in DOUBLÉ NUMBERS of 32 mamtnoth pages, at the same price of smaller works of only 16 pages. Thus we offer more illustrations and the nuabridged text of :he best history extant, the two in one, for only 10 cents each doublé iuunber. Why Harper's Pictorial History of the War is "the best History of the War." Because it is the only COMPLETE general history of the war and of the causes leading to it. _ A lucid, dispassionate story óf men and events as they were. A narrative of facts written in the very spirit of truth for the very truth's sake. To the best written history is added a collection of Contemporaneous Illustrations which neither is nor can be equalled elsewhere. Pictures of men and places, of battle by sea and land, sieges, camps, fortresses, and everything connected with the civil and military li'fe at the time. In a word it contains all the most valuable and interesting illustrations from "ELakpek's Weekly" Duking and Pkeceding the Wae. This feature makes this history of incomparable valué, as it contains over 1000 of these famons war pictures. EDITOHIÍIj C-XT-O-EllCSiTT1. lts editors wcre Mr. Richard Grant White, who wrote the introduciory chapters, Dr. Alfred E. Guernsey and Mr. Henry M. Alden. Among the contributors were President Garfteld, General Joseph E. Johnston, General George H. Thomas, General Gouverneur K. Warren, and other prominent ofiicers, both national and confedérate. With all the material accumulated in their hands, the authors spent five years in writing the work. All the national and confedérate official docuraents were at their disposal, and were most freely use'd. Quite a number of these official documents are given in f all. A Regiment of artists teil the story faithfully and with surprising clearness. Among thetn are to be found such distinguished names as Edwin Forbes, Thomas Nast, Sol. Eytinge, Theodore R. Davis, A. R. Ward, Granville Perkins, N. Jewett and other of the Harper Artists who have achieved a national reputation. The Size of the Pages and i no. i. June 29, 1894. I Illustrations. I ■ 1 „ HUT Ï ArgUs Coüpoi). 1 The pages are same size as Har _ ; per's Weeklv and among the illusUU I ■ J , .. a Ltiona a-; over 300 Portraits of Harper's Pictorial History of the I Distinguished Soldiers and States: ! Civil War. men, mostly from photographs taken T"l 1 1 0 "N26 PARTS-' during the war; Kearly 100 Maps, HIS: PAT,m T Ï Plans and Sketches of Battlefields, ■ ■IIW rAtti 1' nearly 600 Authentic Sketches of i This Coupon and 1O cents Places of Note and Events of ín to OQe Part' Brin' OT terest, snch as Sieges, Battles, ftllT H 5 Charges, Hospitals, Military PrisAijij Afbor Argüs, ons, Camp Life, Yessels of War, WW ■ Ann Arbor. Mioh. I Naval Engagements, Reviews, Re Opera House Block. ceptions, Etc. xmmim!ammmmmw&mm'mm!itim a