{"product_id":"1891-sherman-porter-funerals-two-civil-war-heroes-die-days-apart-feb-28","title":"1891 Sherman \u0026 Porter Funerals — Two Civil War Heroes Die Days Apart — Feb 28","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · February 28, 1891\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically extraordinary issue documenting one of the most remarkable coincidences in American military history — the funerals of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, who died just one day apart (Porter on February 13, Sherman on February 14, 1891), covered in two separate double-page centerfolds. Combined with George Washington relics, the Port Huron tunnel, and water polo at the Manhattan Athletic Club, this is a primary document of the end of the Civil War generation's greatest military leadership.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚔️ TWO FUNERALS — SHERMAN AND PORTER\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🪦 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE FUNERAL OF GENERAL SHERMAN IN NEW YORK\"\nA dramatic double-page centerfold of General William Tecumseh Sherman's New York funeral — held on February 19, 1891, at his home on West 71st Street and at St. Francis Xavier Church. The pallbearers included General Joseph Johnston — the Confederate commander who had surrendered to Sherman at the end of the war — who reportedly refused to wear his hat in the cold February rain as a final mark of respect for his old adversary, saying \"If I were in his place and he were standing here in mine, he would not put on his hat.\" Johnston contracted pneumonia from the cold and died six weeks later. President Harrison, his Cabinet, and the entire senior military were present. The body was then taken to St. Louis for a second funeral on February 21. A primary document of one of the great Civil War funerals.\n\n⚓ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL DAVID PORTER, WASHINGTON D.C. — SAILORS BEARING THE BODY FROM THE HOUSE\"\nA double-page centerfold of Admiral David Dixon Porter's Washington D.C. funeral — just days before Sherman's, as Porter had died on February 13, one day before Sherman. Porter was the second man in American history to hold the rank of Admiral — succeeding his adoptive brother David Farragut — and one of the greatest naval commanders of the Civil War. His capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip below New Orleans, his command of the Mississippi River Squadron during the Vicksburg Campaign alongside Grant, and his assault on Fort Fisher with the largest American naval fleet ever assembled gave him an unrivalled Civil War record. President Harrison's message to Congress said Porter's death ended \"a very high and honorable career.\" With his death, the title of Admiral in the U.S. Navy died with him — no officer would hold that rank again until 1899. The two funerals in one issue document a remarkable and sorrowful coincidence in American military history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🏛️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🗺️ FULL PAGE — \"GEORGE WASHINGTON RELICS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON\"\nA full-page illustration of Washington relics at the National Museum — a significant piece of American founding history and the early history of what would become the Smithsonian Institution.\n\n🚇 FULL PAGE — \"THE PORT HURON TUNNEL, ST. CLAIR RIVER\"\nA full-page illustration of the Port Huron railroad tunnel under the St. Clair River — one of the great engineering achievements of the Gilded Age, the first international underwater railroad tunnel in North America, connecting Port Huron, Michigan with Sarnia, Ontario. A significant piece of American engineering and Great Lakes transportation history.\n\n🏊 ILLUSTRATION — \"WATER POLO AT THE MANHATTAN ATHLETIC CLUB\"\nAn illustration of water polo at the Manhattan Athletic Club — a rare and early piece of American water polo history, the sport having been introduced to America just a few years earlier.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· February 28, 1891\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nSherman funeral New York, Sherman New York funeral centerfold, Sherman Johnston pallbearer, General Sherman funeral 1891, Sherman death February 1891, Civil War funeral antique, Sherman St. Louis funeral, Johnston Sherman funeral, Porter funeral Washington, Admiral Porter funeral centerfold, David Dixon Porter death 1891, Admiral Porter sailors body, Porter Civil War admiral, Farragut Porter admiral rank, Fort Fisher Porter antique, Vicksburg Porter antique, Civil War naval funeral, two funerals one issue, Sherman Porter died same week, Civil War heroes died, Washington relics National Museum, Port Huron tunnel antique, St. Clair River tunnel, international underwater tunnel, water polo Manhattan Athletic Club, early water polo antique, Harper's Weekly 1891, antique newspaper 1891, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Sherman collector, Civil War collector, naval history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264014217436,"sku":null,"price":95.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/c2f92225-il_fullxfull.8379300679_ce95.jpg?v=1786496634","url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/products\/1891-sherman-porter-funerals-two-civil-war-heroes-die-days-apart-feb-28","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}