“The scenes will be enlivened with Music, selected appropriate to this all absorbing subject. . . . This great exhibition places before the beholder a vast and comprehensive view of this TERRIBLE REBELLION from the DREAD SIGNAL AT SUMTER down to the last great battle at FREDERICKSBURG, from authentic Sketches by a corps of eminent artists and acknowledged perfectly correct by MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.  Profuse with STARTLING SCENIC AND DIORAMIC EFFECTS.  Over one thousand incidents of this GIGANTIC REBELLION, Together with a perfect GRAND MOVING DIORAMA of the GREAT NAVAL COMBAT Between the MERRIMIAC AND MONITOR.  Represented with moving water, sailing vessels, steamer and the ACTUAL ENGAGEMENT between the IRON-CLAD MONSTERS.  MR. R. CHOAT SOMERBY Will deliver an instructive and patriotic lecture.”