SPECIAL STUDIES IN ITS HISTORY.

In accordance wit a promise the MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY presents to its readers the mument für stemthe initial number of the new volume XIV.— the introductory chapters nos seres cé

WAR STUDIES,

Consisting of seven belian women coming and intensely interesting papers on the events beginning with the opening of bostiries and the ist great uprising throughout the land in 1861.

Lieut-General Charles P. Stone, late chief of the general staff of the Khedive in Egypt, who was Inspector-General of the Destrot of Columbia at the time, writes a graphic and forcible sketch of the condone of "Wakamon in March and April, 1961,” presenting y fresh facts and bodents of surpassing moment. His paper is illustrated with the portaits of President Lincoln and several members of his Cabinet, and with copies of the Charleston. Mercury proclaiming the InstrON OF THE UNION and the Virginia Ordinance of SECESSION, General Thomas Jordan, C.S.A, the well-known Confederate General, writes a readable, and critical paper on the "Baggs of the Creil War in America” from Southern standpoint miding much that belongs to the truth of history, and, as he says, ach that will be found mining counter to the present general opinion in the South as well in the North and West.” A second paper from the same distinguished pen will appear in de August number of this Magarine, with pertinent illustrations.

General Meredith Read, the Adjutant-General of the State of New York in 1801, catributes an exceptionally mocable and surring account of State military affairs at that period, with glimpses from behind the scenes, under the title of "Some. Experiences and ¡mpasives," which throw a food of light upon many half-forgotten events of great importance the country at large. He will as contribute a second valuable paper to the August Magatouching upon the organization of the New York arm of the Union Army.

Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr., LL.D., C.S.A., Chief of Artillery of the Confederate Department of Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina, the eminent Georgia scholar and historian, writes of the Seccare and Redaction of Fort Pulaski,” an admirably condensed and interesting chapter in the early history of the struggle. The reader may anticipate farder contributions from this accomplished author.

The March of the Seventh Regiment" and the "Great Uprising in New York City in 1801," forms, as told by the Editor, a vivid picture of sights, scenes and events, which to the present generation will hardly seem among the possibilities. Striking illustrations of Fort Sumter on fire, from a photograph made at the time, and of the march of the Seventh Regiment down Broadway, from the original painting by Thomast Nast, together with portraits of tro of the commanders of the regiment, will attract wide attention.

Brig.-General Egbert L. Viele writes a spirited account of "The Seventh Regiment at the Capital," and "The Daylight Contingent." The Daylight was a small vessel chartered by friends of the Seventh Regiment in New York, and the "Contingent" was a detachment of two andred members of the regiment led by General, then Captain, Vielé, of Col. Lefferts' staff. and was the first military body to open the passage and pass to the City of Washington by the Potomac River. The scene in the Hall of Representatives, while used by the Seventh Regient as a temporary "camping ground," is cleverly represented in a picture made from a otograph and the entertaining article is further illustrated.

George Rutledge Gibson, the great-grandson of Edward Rutledge one of the signof the Declaration of Independence, contributes a strong and substantial article, of some elve or more pages, entitled "Wall Street in the Civil War," which is a carefully prepared and prehensive study of the financial aspects of the conflict.

The future numbers of the Magazine will contain each month from two to four ably