1864 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content.

Rather scarce Civil War era periodical. The Student and Schoolmate had initially been two separate periodicals [The Student; The Schoolmate], but joined together in 1858, under the editorship of William T. Adams, i.e. Oliver Optic. The new format provided both practical help for student and teacher in a final section of each month's paper, and fiction and non-fiction narratives, heavily illustrated, for the bulk of it, focusing on history, morality, emerging sciences and exploration, etc., 

The tone of the paper shifted noticeably and immediately in 1861, with regular updates on the Civil War, poems and tales related to soldiers, slavery, the sacrifices of family's with lost parents, the nobility of father's leaving their beloved families, on the Union, etc., All years rather rare and desirable, but the Civil War years even moreso. 

Contents include: The Soldier's Burial; Extract from the Oration of Edward Everett at Gettysburg [series]; The Soldier by Mrs. M. E. Berry; Sylvester the Hunchback and Clarence by Mrs. Phebe H. Phelps; A Tear for the Comrade that's Gone by Lieutenant Thomas F. Winthrop for Major H. J. How of the Nineteenth Regiment Volunteers Killed at Glendale, 1862; All Hail the Land [song with music]; A Box for the Soldier by Mrs. Phebe H. Phelps [on society's sending care packages to soldiers, etc.]; The Last Charge by Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Spring Campaign [Civil War]; Men of Color by J. C. Hagen [on slavery]; The Returned Veterans by Park Benjamin; Success of the Sanitary Commission; John Chinaman in California by B. W. Putnam;  Our Nation's Hope by James Walker; The Dying Soldier by Charles William Butler; The Burial at Gettysburg; Campaigning of a Brigade and a Division; Our Heroes by Frances de Haes Janvier; Moral Courage and Patriotism by Gertrude Grahame; Extract from Gen. McClellan's Oration at West Point; Atlanta has Fallen; Song of the Croaker by Horatio Alger; Where is My Boy Tonight? by Horatio Alger; The Stars and Stripes; The Driver's Whip [slavery]; Speech [extract] by Alexander H. Stephens - Vice President of the Confederate States - Delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, 1861; etc. etc.  

Adams, William T. [Ed, aka Oliver Optic]. The Student and Schoolmate. Vol. XIII. January through December, 1864. 192 + 192pp. 

A good - copy with early naive rebacking in cloth, boards well worn. Binding a bit stuff, and text handled, but sound and complete.