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The Confederacy did not possess the necessary resources for publishing any illustrated paper comparable to Frank Leslie's or Harper's Weekly. Although few southerners ever saw it, the Illustrated London News supplied pictorial coverage from the southern perspective. Its artist-correspondent Frank Vizetelly covered the war behind Confederate lines from the 1861 Battle of Bull Run to the surrender of Richmond in 1865. We do not know if Vizetelly supplied the sketches for the British weekly's pictorial coverage of the draft riots. But, in contrast to the Republican Harper's Weekly, the Illustrated London News's depiction of one of two attacks on the building in Printing House Square in lower Manhattan housing the Daily Tribune, edited by the ardently Republican and anti-slavery Horace Greeley, emphasized the scope of the violence without portraying the rioters as animal-like. |
Draft Riots 1863 - Tribune Building Attack
