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The copperhead party - in favor of a vigorous prosecution of peace!
Editorial cartoon shows three caricatured Copperheads advancing on Columbia who holds a shield labeled "Union" and a sword. Although Clement Vallandigham was one of the leading members of the Copperhead Party, it doesn't appear that he is among those…
A proper family re-union
A biting cartoon showing Confederate president Jefferson Davis in league with both the devil and Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold. Arnold and Davis stir a cauldron of "Treason Toddy," a brew into which the devil drops miniature black slaves.…
The soldier's song--Unionism vs. Copperheadism
This political cartoon illustrates that the true enemy to the Union were the Copperheads of the North.
The copperhead plan for subjugating the South / F.B.
Cartoon shows a delegation of Copperheads entreating a Southerner to return to the Union.
An august convention
The National Union Convention met in Philadelphia in August 1866 to create a political party that would back President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program and to elect a new Congress. Here, the convention is portrayed as a gathering of muzzled…
The great American What is it? chased by Copper-heads
An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to free blacks and enslave whites, not to save…
The old bull dog on the right track
An election year cartoon measuring Democratic candidate McClellan's military failures against the recent successes of his successor, Ulysses S. Grant. At right Grant, portrayed as a bulldog wearing a collar labeled "Lieut. General" and epaulets, sits…
Editorial cartoon, "Slow & steady wins the race" by Alfred Withal Stern
Political cartoon about the Copperheads.
Union soldiers in Andersonville prison / The rebel leader, Jeff Davis, at Fortress Monroe
Political cartoon depicting Union soldiers in Andersonville prison compared with the rebel leader, Jeff Davis at Fortress Monroe. This wood engraving was completed by Thomas Nast, a German-born cartoonist, who would later become known for his…