![]() ![]() The president wields a dagger and wears a woman's dress and cape as well as a "Blockade Runner" boot. Depicts Union soldiers on horseback riding through marshes and chasing down Davis, who flees on foot. The capture of Jeff Davis : His last official act "the adoption of a new rebel uniform." He attempts to "clear his skirts," but finds it "all up in Dixie" / Giles.Ĭartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Dragoon" who gallop "Home, Sweet, Home." Contains a key to depicted figures below the image., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014. Wilson refuses the pleas of a wounded soldier as he has "a wife and children to care for." In the background, Confederate troops march over a hill and mock the Union's abolitionist stance and lack of ammunition Sherman's Battiry loads a cannon Congressmen seek shelter behind a barricade of "U.S." wagons civilian spectators Brown & Company flee by carriage as they deny aid to a white man who hollers, "you are more unmerciful then the overseer" Congressman Ely, captured by the Confederates, offers a monetary bribe in exchange for his "liberty" and the Union's Blenker's Brigade march into the battle in front of their retreating fellow soldiers General Irvin McDowell and the "U.S. The troops flee on the road to Washington past Union soldiers who lay dying and lamenting their foolishness near a "fat left-tenant" stating "God Save the Union" and Senator Wilson. Depicts in the foreground: the Zouaves driving a bull that holds the American flag in its tail and is labeled, "Expenses for 100 Mill., Bad Business, Property, but no Security" in front of the retreating General Tyler and the New York regiment. and (14) ladies as sputatiers (15) Biddle, Brown & Co., members of Congress (16) Union Blenker's Brigade (17) Senator Wilson (18) and the U.S. Figures include: (1) Beauregard's (2) Jefferson Davis's and (3) Johnston's Confederate Headquarters (4) Maryland Elzy's Battiry (5) Union General Irvin McDowell (6) Union General Daniel Tyler (7) the Bull's Run (8) New York Fire Zouaves (9) New York 12th Regiment (10) Union Sherman's Battiry (11) Congressman Alfred Ely (12) barricade for Members of Congress (13) civilian spectators Lovejoy & Co. Pro-Confederate cartoon containing eighteen numbered figures and scenes to satirize the mayhem at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. ![]() Member and Shareholder Exclusive Content.Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement.Program in Early American Economy and Society. ![]()
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