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The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes on the Battle Field

Creator:
unknown
Location:
unknown place made
Origin Date:
1864
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 19 in x 24 1/2 in
Item ID:
71.2009.081.0241
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
Available for Viewing:
No
Category:
Fine Art

Description

A very anti-Lincoln cartoon, based on slanderous newspaper reports of the President's callous disregard of the misery of Union troops at the front. The story that Lincoln had joked on the field at Antietam appeared in the "New York World." Holding a plaid Scotch cap, Lincoln stands on the battlefield at Antietam, which is littered with Union dead and wounded. He instructs his friend Marshal Lamon, who stands with his back toward the viewer and his hand over his face, to "sing us P̀icayune Butler,' or something else that's funny." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum