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Civil War Again

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Argüs has completed arrangements to offer its readers sorüething iva ly worthy to le called the CIÍAINÍCE OF A LÍFE TlME. T offer them somevhing of well-known thoroughly estalisbeil tud extraordinary valne, at such a ridicuously small sum that it seems almost inipussible. Containing Over One Thousand of the Illustrations That appeared in Harper's Weekly During the War. [Afile of Harper's Weekly during the war is noto ' wortA $100.) 832 immense folio pages 16 x 11L inches. Equal to 3000 pages of usual royai octavo s;; s. The COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED, ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC WORK, which lias aïwaya sold f rom $16.00 to $30.00. Issued in DOUBLÉ NUMBERS of 32 mammöth pages, at the same price of smaller works of only 16 pages. Thus we offer more illustrations and the unabridgeJ text oí the best history extant, the two in one, for only 10 cents each doublé n-nmbe.r. 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 of men and events as they were. A narrative of facts written in the very spirit or' truth for the very truth'a sake. To the best written history is added a collection of Ooutemporaneous 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 Life at the time. In a word it contains all the most valuable and interesting illustrations from "Harper's Weekly" During and Preceding the War. This feature makes this history of incoínparable valué, as it contains over 1000 of these famous war pictures. :3:hito:e?,i.aXj i.IíT-a.oeiísít'z". lts editora were Mr. Richard Grant White, who wróte the introducrory, chapter's, ür. Aifred H. Guernsey and Mr. Henry M. Alden. Among the contributors were Presidejj't Garfield, General Joseph E. Johnston, General George H. Thomas, General Gouverneur K. Warren, and other prominent officers, both national and confedérate. With all the material accumulated in their hands, the autho'rs spent five years in writing the work. All the national and confedérate official documenta were at their disposal, and were most freely used. Quite a number of these official documents are giveu in f uil. ABTISTS. A Regiment of artists teil the story faithfully and with surprising clearness. Among thern 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. V ÍTlÍTi ITïtYtITI It ii Vi'ÍVl'tTrrttTIl'Vl'ÍVíVl'l'IVf ÏWllff fc'IVIl(YVWlllfWllnTllfttV1fl1fVf VVL'W V Vl'iVïiT-l The Size of the Pages and i! no. i. june 29, 1894. I Illustrations. " . 1 The pages are same size as HarOIIT ArgÜS COÜpOI). 1 1 per's Weeklv and among the illuaWW I E" jj trations are" over 300 Portraits of Harper's Pictorial History of the i j Distinguished Soldiers and States CÍVÍI War. men, mo3tly from photographs taken 1111 A i (in 26 parts.) during the war; Nearly 100 Maps, fl H Plans and Sketches of Battlefields, I II IV PART I. nearly 600 Authentic Sketches of ! This Coupou and 10 cents á Places of Note and Events of Injg es you to one Part. Briug or o r. . ! L senil to : terest, such as bieges, Jöattles, fll IT ■ 'r M Charges, Hospitals, Military PrisAijij A.rbor Arglis, jj ons, Camp Life, Yessels of War, WWl _ ] I Naval Engagements, Reviews, ReI Opera House " ' Mlch' j ceptions, Etc. vmmimmvmmimimiiwmimiiM'mmi!)m d

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