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Title The ghost of an "old soger" in camp. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on carte de visite mount; 10 x 6 cm.(4 x 2.5 in.)
Description Reproduction of a satiric drawing alluding to the "old soger," General Winfield Scott, the retired first commander of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Shows a huge smoking cigar bud, i.e., an "old soger," propped up in the middle of "Camp Scott." An officer looks on in disbelief.
Notes Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs.
Created postfreeze.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cigars.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military facilities -- Union.
Genre Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1860-1870.
Reproductions -- 1860-1870.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadephia| Print Department| cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52g]
Accession number 5780.F.52g

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