Details
Contributor Currier & Ives, publisher.
Title The last ditch of chivalry or, a president in petticoats [graphic].
Publisher New York: Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St
Publisher NY. New York. 1865
Date c1865
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 34 x 45 cm.(13.5 x 18 in.)
Description Cartoon satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Union soldiers chasing a fleeing Davis, who wears a bonnet and dress and carries a bag of gold (an allusion to Davis's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldiers wave pistols and swords and harrass Davis about his surrender, the bounty on his head, his ineffectual disguise, and his having reached his "last ditch." Davis responds that he thought that their government was "more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children." In the background, Davis's wife warns the soldiers "Look out you Yankees, if you make him mad he will hurt some of you."
Is referenced by Weitenkampf p. 151.
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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 & imprisonment.
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Finance -- Confederate States of America.
Cross dressing.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Printer Currier & Ives, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1865-32W [6384.F]
Accession number 6384.F