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THE WAR IN AMERICA: THE CONFEDERATES QUITTING BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS..., 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The War in America: the Confederates quitting Brownsville, Texas, on hearing of the approach of Federal transports, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. A. G. Wedge. 'The town of Brownsville lies on the Texan bank of the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo) del Norte, about two miles from Matamoras, a town of some note in Mexico, on the south side of the river. Although built almost entirely of wood, Brownsville has a neat and bright appearance. There was a considerable Confederate garrison at this place; but the inhabitants, having, on Monday, Nov. 2, 1863, received information of the arrival of a fleet of Federal transports off Brazos, Santiago, began immediately to evacuate the town; and for two days every means of transit across the Rio Grande was crowded to excess with goods, furniture, cotton, and baggage; while upon both banks were piled in confused heaps bedding, cotton bales, luggage, vehicles, and merchandise of every description. About three o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 3rd December., the military authorities retreated, after burning the garrison buildings, the cotton, and all public stores they were not able to remove. On the 6th December the Federals, under command of General Banks, took quiet possession of the place'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The War in America: the Confederates quitting Brownsville, Texas..., 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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THE STATUE OF SIR HUGH MYDDELTON AT ISLINGTON-GREEN, SCULPTURED BY THE LATE JOHN THOMAS, 1862. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
The Statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton at Islington-green [in London], sculptured by the late John Thomas, 1862. '...a fine public monument...to the memory of the great engineer, who, triumphing over the most formidable obstacles, succeeded early in the seventeenth century in diverting a river from its natural channel and conducting it many miles to the high-lying district north of London, for the purpose of supplying a large portion of the metropolis with water. It is needless to refer to the importance of adequate water supply in large towns...a most graceful recognition of this fact has been shown by...the introduction of a drinking-fountain as part of the memorial...The statue...is in Sicilian marble...Sir Hugh is dressed in the quaint and stiff but still...picturesque costume of the latter part of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century - Flanders ruff and cuffs, doublet and jerkin, a cloak of Elizabethan amplitude, trunk hose [and] breeches...In his left hand he holds a scroll containing a plan of his great and useful work, labelled with the words "New River."...The late John Thomas was an architectural designer as well as sculptor, - hence his unique and unrivalled success in the design of this monument'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. The Statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton at Islington-green, sculptured by the late John Thomas, 1862. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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MR. YANCEY, ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS FROM THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA..., 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Mr. Yancey, one of the commissioners from the Confederate States of America to the European Courts, 1862. Portrait from a photograph by Mayall. 'Mr. Yancey's chief claim to public notice rests in his early recognition of the ineradicable differences existing between the North and South [USA], and which time, instead of diminishing, extended and strengthened...he predicted that the Union would be dissolved whenever they stood arrayed as sections, the one against the other...In selecting three gentlemen to form a commission to the Powers of Europe to present the claims of the Confederate States to recognition and friendly commercial relations, President Davis considered it an occasion to recognise the long persistent services of Mr. Yancey in the cause of the South; and, as he had been the first to urge and obtain the consent of the South to secede and form an independent Confederacy, it was felt that he should be the first in a commission to obtain recognition of the new Power from the elder nations of the earth, and especially from Great Britain and France. Hence Mr. Yancey was appointed to be the senior or chief of the commission to Europe, and has been in this country and in France in that capacity since May last'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. Mr. Yancey, one of the commissioners from the Confederate States of America..., 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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