August 1861

Articles

• Nat Turner's Insurrection

  154 years ago, The Atlantic published an account of a Virginia slave revolt that would become one of the bloodiest in American history.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Theodore Winthrop

  This obituary for Union army officer Theodore Winthrop ran in place of the dispatch he had been working on for the Atlantic when he was killed in action

  George William Curtis

• Trees in Assemblages

• Miss Lucinda

• A Soldier's Ancestry

• Fibrilia

• Concerning Veal: A Discourse of Immaturity

• Reminiscences of Stephen A. Douglas

• Our River: (For a Summer Festival at "The Laurels" on the Merrimack)

• Agnes of Sorrento

• Mail-Clad Steamers

• Parting Hymn

• Where Will the Rebellion Leave Us?

• Dirge: For One Who Fell in Battle

• Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science

• History of Civilization in England

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