The Civil War

American satire from Lincoln's turbulent years.

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Storming the Castle – "Old "Abe" on Guard

Abraham Lincoln · John Bell · John C. Breckinridge · Currier & Ives · James Buchanan, Jr. · Stephen Arnold Douglas · 1860

Napoleon The Little in a Rage with His Great French Eagle!!

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · September 20, 1808

The True Issue or "Thats Whats the Matter"

Abraham Lincoln · General George B. McClellan · Currier & Ives · Jefferson Davis · 1864

"Your Plan and Mine"

Abraham Lincoln · General George B. McClellan · Jefferson Davis · Currier & Ives · 1864

The True Peace Commissioners

Robert E. Lee · William Tecumseh Sherman · Abraham Lincoln · Major General Philip Henry Sheridan · David Glasgow Farragut · Jefferson Davis · Currier & Ives · Ulysses S. Grant · 1865

A Startling Announcement

Jefferson Davis · Currier & Ives · 1862

All on Hobbies, Gee Up, Gee Ho!

Henry Clay · Henry R. Robinson · Edward Williams Clay · Thomas Hart Benton · Martin Van Buren · Daniel Webster · John Quincy Adams · John Caldwell Calhoun · Henry William Harrison · 1838

The War – Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 235, cover)

Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · Harper & Brothers · Anonymous, American, 19th century · June 29, 1861

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 238, cover)

Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · Harper & Brothers · Anonymous, American, 19th century · July 20, 1861

Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown, Reconnoitring [sic] with Dark Lanterns (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)

Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · Harper & Brothers · May 17, 1862

The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)

Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · Harper & Brothers · May 17, 1862

The Rail Candidate

Horace Greeley · Currier & Ives · Abraham Lincoln · Louis Maurer · 1860

The Westminster Watchman

Charles James Fox · Thomas Rowlandson · Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood · Sir Cecil Wray · April 12, 1784

Boxers

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Santa Claus in Camp (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 7, p. 1)

Thomas Nast · Harper's Weekly · January 3, 1863

Political "Blondins" Crossing Salt River

Edward Everett · Stephen Arnold Douglas · John C. Breckinridge · Joseph Lane · Horace Greeley · Currier & Ives · John Bell · Abraham Lincoln · 1860

Heads of the Democracy

Currier & Ives · General George B. McClellan · 1864

Why Don't You Take It?

Currier & Ives · Jefferson Davis · Ulysses S. Grant · 1861–64

The True Issue or "Thats Whats the Matter"

Currier & Ives · Jefferson Davis · General George B. McClellan · Abraham Lincoln · 1864

Freedom to the Slaves

Currier & Ives · Abraham Lincoln · ca. 1865

Re-union on the Secesh-Democratic Plan

Currier & Ives · Jefferson Davis · 1862

The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track

Currier & Ives · Robert E. Lee · General P. G. T. Beauregard · Ulysses S. Grant · General George B. McClellan · Abraham Lincoln · Jefferson Davis · 1864

"The Nigger" in the Woodpile

Currier & Ives · Abraham Lincoln · Louis Maurer · Horace Greeley · 1860

Stephen Finding "His Mother"

Currier & Ives · Stephen Arnold Douglas · Louis Maurer · 1860

Re-Construction, or "A White Man's Govenment"

Currier & Ives · Ulysses S. Grant · 1868

The Political "Siamese" Twins, the offspring of Chicago miscegenation

Currier & Ives · General George B. McClellan · Clement Laird Vallandigham · Horatio Seymour · George Hunt Pendleton · 1864

The Knight and His Companion (Punch, March 5, 1887)

John Tenniel · 1887

Christmas Boxes in Camp – Christmas, 1861 (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)

Harper & Brothers · Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · January 4, 1862

Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)

Harper & Brothers · Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · May 17, 1862

A Shell in Rebel Trenches (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)

Harper & Brothers · Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · January 17, 1863

Charles H. Getzin, Pitcher, Detroit, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter · Lindner, Eddy & Claus · 1888

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square

Abraham Lincoln · Currier & Ives · 1865

The "Boy of the Period" Stirring up the Animals

Ulysses S. Grant · Jay Gould · Currier & Ives · 1869

Fate of the Radical Party

Andrew Johnson · Schulyer Colfax Jr. · Benjamin Franklin Butler · Thaddeus Stevens · Ulysses S. Grant · The American News Co. · Currier & Ives · 1868

Breaking that "Backbone"

Jefferson Davis · General George B. McClellan · Abraham Lincoln · Edwin McMasters Stanton · Benjamin Henry Day Jr. · Currier & Ives · Henry Wager Halleck · 1862–63