This 1861 issue from The Atlantic Monthly includes "Nat Turner's Insurrection" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; "The Flower of Liberty" and "Bread and the Newspaper" by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Our Country" by Julia Ward Howe; "The Advantages of Defeat" by Charles Eliot Norton; and "Washington as a Camp" by Theodore Winthrop. Formerly owned by the library of the US Military Academy at West Point. Note: Front cover and endpapers are detached. (One volume of three shown.)