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NILES, HEZEKIAH, editor. The Weekly Register.
WITH A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT MCHENRY NILES, HEZEKIAH, editor. The Weekly Register. 6 volumes: Volumes I, II, IV, VII, IX, and X. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with modern binder's cloth; moderate browning and dampstaining; hinges starting or split, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, Volume VII lacks collective title and first page of index. Baltimore, 1811-1816
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Notes: This popular weekly was often known as "Niles'' Register," and was one of the leading sources of American political and military news during and after the War of 1812. These volumes include President Madison''s message accompanying the declaration of war by Congress, 20 June 1812; and Madison''s proclamation in response to the British burning of Washington, 10 September 1814.
The famous Battle of Fort McHenry occurred as part of a failed British assault on Baltimore on 13 September 1814. Niles and his staff, publishing from Baltimore, were on the scene. That week, the Register was not published, but on 24 September they returned with this apology: "Being disturbed by the enemy, and having every person in the office, a small boy excepted, under arms, last Saturday passed without a publication of the Weekly Register." The assault on Baltimore is described in great detail, noting that "The attack on Fort McHenry was terribly grand and magnificent . . . never, perhaps from the time of the invention of cannon to the present day, were the same number of pieces fired with so rapid succession." Francis Scott Key was inspired by this same barrage to write the "Star-Spangled Banner." -
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