Return To Lincoln: The Image: The Most Important Presidential Election
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Artist and publisher unknown. c.1864
A libelous report that Lincoln had asked a companion to sing a humorous tune on a visit to the casualty-strewn Antietam battlefield led to this hostile cartoon illustrating the story. Lincoln asks his companion, whose back is to the viewer, to "sing us 'Picayune Butler,' or something else that's funny."