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The cartoon caricatured the events of the Overland Campaign and the struggle between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that resulted from the campaign. The cartoon depicted Grant grabbing, turning, and then swatting Lee. The Overland…

This cartoon, published on January 31, 1863, in Harpers Weekly, depicts northern Peace Democrats, including Clement Vallandigham and James Brooks knocking on Confederate President Jefferson Davis' front door. Pompey answers the door and replies, in…

Frank Bellew (1828-1888) was born in India but spent most of his career in New York City. He worked with notable publishers at the time such as Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s Weekly, and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated. In the cartoon…

This cartoon references Bombastes Furioso, a “a burlesque tragic opera,” which was popular in the nineteenth century. In Bombastes Furioso, King Artaxaminous wishes to leave his wife for Distaffina, who is betrothed to General Bombaste.…

This cartoon, published in Harper's Weekly shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, depicted an unidentified Union soldier chasing an unidentified Confederate Soldier to Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. This cartoon showed that most…

The cartoon depicts a slave on a porch watching in amazement of the sheer numbers of Union soldiers marching through the Confederate homefront during Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea. Published in Harper’s Weekly,…

In the cartoon, Jefferson Davis is placed on a chair upon a barrel of gunpowder. There is a large hand giving Jefferson Davis a large cup containing a “smash.” The “smash” contains a grouping of ships crowded in the water. The ships in the cartoon…

On May 1, 1863 the Confederate Congress, acting on the recommendations of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, passed a series of resolutions responding to the Emancipation Proclamation and the use of black soldiers in Union forces. They declared…