Great Union Meeting, Union Square

The mass meeting in Union Square on April 20, 1861, in support of the government. Drawing published in the Illustrated London News May 18, same year. Below, another illustration of the same event from Harper's Weekly, May 4.

The Washington Monument is on the right and Everett House is in the center. The Civil War (1861-1865) had just begun. Original title of the Illustrated London News drawing: The "Union" Mass Meeting Held in Union-Square, New York on the 20th of April. Original title of the illustration from Harper's Weekly (below): The Great Meeting in Union Square, New York, to Support the Government, April 20, 1861. The meeting took place at three o'clock. There were several stands for speakers erected in different parts of the square and there was speaking from all of them, as well as from several tribunes in adjacent streets.