Details
Contributor Magee, John L., publisher.
Title Jeff. Davis caught at last. Hoop skirts & Southern chivalry. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by J.L. Magee, 305 Walnut St
Date [1865]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 in.)
Description Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife’s overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Jefferson Davis, attired in a bonnet, long-sleeved dress, and boots, holding a daggar as he is captured by Union soldiers. In the right, one soldier holds a rifle to Davis as another soldier crouches downs and lifts up his hoop skirt revealing his boots with spurs. In the left, two women speak to the soldiers that it is a "poor Grandma" and "poor mother" going to the "well for a bucket of water," and another soldier makes a joke about "Jack and Gill."
Is referenced by Weitenkampf p. 150.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text printed on recto: The only true picture of the capture of Jeff. Davis, from the account furnished by Col. Prichard of the 4th Mich. Cavalry.
Not in Reilly.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Capture & inprisonment.
Cross-dressing.
Cross dressing.
Crossdressing.
Gender roles.
Gender transgression.
Soldiers -- Union.
Women.
Philadelphia artists.
Queer history.
Women.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel.
Genre Caricatures -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Caricatures -- 1860-1870.
Transphobic works.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons 1865-22 [P.2275.30]
Accession number P.2275.30