The Illustrated London News 1861

The Civil War in America December 7th

Federal picket on the Potomac, in front of the Confederate Batteries

"My reconnaissance with General Sickles in the Potomac"

Top:The Confederate batteries on the lower Potomac, Virginia shore, opposite Budd's ferry
Government Store-Schooners running the blockade
Bottom: The ten pounder gun battery (Federalist at Budd's ferry, Lower Potomac
Opposite the Confedrate batteries on the Virginia shore

The seizure by Captain Wilks, of the United States' war ship San Jacinto,
of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, Confederate commissioners, on board the British mail steamer Trent