A collection of six (6) war-time issues of Harper's Weekly and one (1) issue of Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Each features large woodbut images throughout, most notably a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad. Issues include: 

1. Vol. IX. No. 436. 6 May 1865. 

Memorial issues featuring a large portrait of President Lincoln with his son Tad, after an image taken by Mathew Brady. 

2. Vol. IX, No. 438, 20 May 1865.

With reporting on Lincoln's assassination and funeral, the cover features three vignettes from the escape and pursuit of John Wilkes Booth and other assassins, including: "Ruins of Garrett's Barn and Out-Houses, Near Port Royal, Where Booth was Shot", "Garrett's House, Where Booth Died", and "Harold's House, Near the Washington Navy-Yard." 

3. Vol. IX, No. 439, 27 May 1865. 

A large woodcut portrait of "Lewis Payne the Assassin" as he is guarded by a Union soldier, after a photograph taken by Alexander Gardner. 

4. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Vol. X, no. 245, 4 August 1860. 

Featuring a large portrait of five men of the "Savannah Blues of Georgia" after a photograph taken by Mathew Brady. One of the many militia units that proliferated in the antebellum period as tensions rose, the men wear fine dress uniforms with epaulettes and extravagantly plumed shakos bearing their regimental insignia. 

5. Vol. VI, No. 309, 29 November 1862. 

With a large portrait of Major General Ambrose Burnside, during his command of the Army of the Potomac, after a photograph by Brady. 

6. Vol. VII, No. 322, 28 February 1863. 

Cover is dominated by a large portrait of Major General Hooker, when he held the command of the Army of the Potomac, after a photograph by Brady

7. Vol. VII, No. 337, 13 June 1863.

Featuring a portrait of Major General John A. Logan and a battle scene titled "General Logan Crossing the Bayou Pierre in Pursuit of the Rebels" after a sketch by Mr. Theodore R. Davis. 

A choice selection of Harper's Weekly issues related to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War at large. 

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