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Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title "As if he had been in a bottle strongly corked." [graphic] / WFG.
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1886
Date [ca. 1886]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on carte de visite mount; 11 x 7 cm.(4 x 2.25 in.)
Description Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing Benjamin Butler's failed expedition at Bermuda Hundred on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign (1864). As quoted in Ulysses S. Grant's 1885-1886 memoirs, Butler's command of the movement of the troops left the general "as if he had been in a bottle strongly corked" by the Confederate line. Shows Butler encased in a corked bottle in front of a map labeled "Bermuda Hundred."
Notes LCP holds original caricature drawing, probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook [drawings & watercolors - unid. - B (P.2006.1.11)].
Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Geographic subject Bermuda Hundred (Va.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns & battles.
Genre Cartes de visite -- 1880-1890.
Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Caricatures -- 1880-1890.
Reproductions -- 1880-1890.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2006.1.12]
Accession number P.2006.1.12

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