Commisary Train in the Mountains, Jan 1865, Harpers,  ORIGINAL    (22)

- 11 x 16 inches approx. (typical newspaper page size) 

- note: Engravings were etchings inscribed onto boxwood print blocks.  The source of the etchings were pencil/charcoal sketches made by artists hired by the newspapers to visit news events on site, and sketch on an easel...with an eagle-eye view of the event.  It usually took at least a week for the sketches to get to the printer's office and then get inscribed onto print blocks.  Newspaper engravings may carry the name of the sketch artist and/or the head engraver, some of whom became famous. 

includes:  one full, unfolded sheet covered by 2 Engravings.  Large one is a the Civil War Union Commisary train.  Also on page is a small engraving:  wreck of the Otsego and explosion of the tug, Bazly on the Roanoke River.  The backside is a long first-hand account of accompanying the Rebel Col. Mosby.

Wikipedia:  Otsego, a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel gunboat, got underway on 12 June for New Berne, North Carolina, and served in the North Carolina Sounds where she served throughout her career, helping tighten the Union grip on these strategic waters and adjoining territory, primarily guarding the mouth of the Roanoke River against an attack by Confederate ironclad ram CSS Albemarle.  

Condition:  Very Good Condition for this antique news-sheet.  Engraving shows only light/minor age-tanning, with no marks, stains, foxing, tears, or folds.  Engraving is clear and unblemished.  This specimen was kept with cardboard support in a poly sleeve for the past several decades, which accounts for its great condition.  The  engravings are collectible & frame-able.  Item will be mailed in a protective poly bag, inside a crush-resistant mailing tube.