Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) PRICE, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. No. 1. SERIAL. August, 1861. Fuller’s Modern Age. DEVOTED TO Sermons, Orations, Lectures, Popular Correspondence, &c. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA; BY WM. H. RUSSELL, LL.D., Special Correspondent of the London Times. BOSTON: GARDNER A. FULLER, 112 WASHINGTON STREET. LONDON: Trubner & Co., 60 Paternoster Row. STEREOTYPE EDITION. No. TWO WILL CONTAIN A SECOND SERIES OF MR. RUSSELL’S LETTERS. A LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE.☜ CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: MILES & DILLINGHAM, Printers and Stereotypers. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA: BY WM. H. RUSSELL, LL.D., SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE LONDON TIMES. BOSTON: GARDNER A. FULLER, No. 112 Washington Street. THE MODERN AGE. In presenting the first number of the _Modern Age_ to the public, I have selected the letters of Mr. Russell, deeming them the most appropriate topic for the times, and worthy of an extensive circulation. That these letters are written by the most interesting correspondent of the largest, ablest, and most influential paper in the world, is sufficient proof of their merits, and that they come to us “well recommended and properly vouched for.” The universal “desire for more light” in regard to affairs in the South, will find abundant satisfaction in this brilliant and talented correspondence of a writer, whose chirographical experience in the Crimean war, has so eminently fitted him “to render a fair and impartial account” of the Civil War in America. Number two of the _Modern Age_ will contain another serial of Mr. Russell’s letters, at the close of which I shall introduce popular Orations and occasional Sermons from our most eminent Divines. The principal design of this work is to preserve in the most convenient form the best thoughts, fresh from the lips of our most gifted men: its peculiar character will prevent a regular monthly publication; yet I hope to be able from the many reports, to elect twelve in the course of a year. No pains will be spared in my endeavors to make it the best and most attractive work of its kind in the country, and I trust it will meet with much favor at the hands of a generous public. G. A. FULLER. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. LETTER I. WASHINGTON, March 29, 1861.