Southern Illustrated News - January 16, 1864
SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS. Richmond, Saturday, January 16, 1864. Vol. III - No. 2. Pages 9-16. The front page features an illustration of Brigadier-General J.R. Jones with a brief article concerning him until he "resigned his commission we believe on account of ill-health." Also on page 12 under the title of THE TIMES is much on the Civil War..."We look back with pride...to the brilliant victories at Fredericksburg, the capture of Winchester, the magnificent though indecisive field of Gettysburg, the complete repulse of the enemy at Charleston...Texas has been preserved almost intact...General Kirby Smith has taken the field against the enemy in Arkansas. The most gentlemanly act the enemy have done during the war was performed in Charleston harbor on the evening of the 1st inst - They fired a couple of shots over the ruins of Sumter, and when the evening gun of the brave, dismantled, but defiant old pile, boomed over the waters, they lowered their flag respectively. But this is no offset to their inborn malignity." Evenly toned, dbd, overall a nice copy of a very rare Confederate newspaper.