Price
$145.00
Condition
used
Product Condition
Very good
Size
5.5" x 3"
1861 Abraham Lincoln & Gen. McClellan “Review of the Army” Civil War Cover – Magnus. Outstanding Civil War patriotic envelope featuring oval portraits of President Abraham Lincoln and Major General George B. McClellan, surrounded by elaborate military and patriotic imagery with a banner below reading “REVIEW OF THE ARMY.”
Published by noted New York lithographer Charles Magnus, with his imprint “Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St. N.Y.” appearing beneath the design.
Magnus produced some of the most elaborate and desirable illustrated patriotic envelopes of the Civil War, frequently combining portraits of Lincoln with prominent Union military commanders. McClellan was then the celebrated commander of the Army of the Potomac and, for a time, General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
An especially desirable Civil War patriotic cover combining three collecting areas: Abraham Lincoln, General George B. McClellan and the highly collectible work of Charles Magnus.
The “Review of the Army” theme was particularly appropriate to Lincoln and McClellan. On November 20, 1861, Lincoln attended McClellan's enormous Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac near Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia. Approximately 70,000 troops participated
$145.00
used
Very good
5.5" x 3"