The Southern Illustrated News - June 13, 1863

THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS. Richmond, Saturday, June 13, 1863. Vol. 1 - No. 40. Pages 1-8 with the main illustration and article being on General T.J. Churchill. Also an article on the revolutionary war heroine Mrs. Powell who faced off the British Col. Tarleton as he passed through North Carolina. Interesting editorial warning titled A YANKEE TRICK "A scoundrel, signing himself J.W MILLER, is traveling through the South soliciting and receiving subscriptions for our paper. He, also, has an accomplice in our city, who forwards papers for a few weeks to any address furnished by Miller. This scoundrel represents himself as a Virginian, and the Special Traveling Agent of the ILLUSTRATED NEWS. He is an IMPOSTER, doubtless hailing from Yankeedom, and we warn the people of he Confederacy against him. WE HAVE NO TRAVELLING AGENTS." Begun on September 12, 1862, THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS attempted to fill the void left by Harper's Weekly and other Northern newspapers which were printed in the North and no longer accessible to the South. The editors in the first issue stated "...We propose to issue an Illustrated Family Newspaper...devoted to literature, to public instruction and amusement, to general news, and to the cause of our country in this trying hour when she is engaged in a terrible, but resolute and hopeful struggle for her liberty and independence...." At its peak the SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS had as many subscribers as the largest daily paper in Richmond. THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS papers are quite rare and come to the market very infrequently. This issues is dis-bound with a very light tidemark, overall in vg cond.