| Title |
The battle of Bull's Run [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
United States : Lith. from a pfothogr [sic] |
| Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1861 |
| Date |
[1861] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph, pen; sheet 36 x 52 cm (14.5 x 21 in.) |
| Description |
Pro-Confederate cartoon containing eighteen numbered figures and scenes to satirize the mayhem at the Battle of Bull Run in
July 1861. Figures include: (1) Beauregard's (2) Jefferson Davis's and (3) Johnston's Confederate Headquarters; (4) Maryland
Elzy's Battiry [sic]; (5) Union General Irvin McDowell; (6) Union General Daniel Tyler; (7) the Bull's Run; (8) New York Fire
Zouaves; (9) New York 12th Regiment; (10) Union Sherman's Battiry [sic]; (11) Congressman Alfred Ely; (12) barricade for Members
of Congress; (13) civilian spectators Lovejoy & Co. and (14) ladies as sputatiers; (15) Biddle, Brown & Co., members of Congress;
(16) Union Blenker's Brigade; (17) Senator Wilson; (18) and the U.S. Dragoon. Depicts in the foreground: the Zouaves driving
a bull that holds the American flag in its tail and is labeled, "Expenses for 100 Mill., Bad Business, Property, but no Security"
in front of the retreating General Tyler and the New York regiment. The troops flee on the road to Washington past Union soldiers
who lay dying and lamenting their foolishness near a "fat left-tenant" stating "God Save the Union" and Senator Wilson. Wilson
refuses the pleas of a wounded soldier as he has "a wife and children to care for." In the background, Confederate troops
march over a hill and mock the Union's abolitionist stance and lack of ammunition; Sherman's Battiry [sic] loads a cannon;
Congressmen seek shelter behind a barricade of "U.S." wagons; civilian spectators Brown & Company flee by carriage as they
deny aid to a white man who hollers, "you are more unmerciful then the overseer"; Congressman Ely, captured by the Confederates,
offers a monetary bribe in exchange for his "liberty"; and the Union's Blenker's Brigade march into the battle in front of
their retreating fellow soldiers General Irvin McDowell and the "U.S. Dragoon" who gallop "Home, Sweet, Home." Contains a
key to depicted figures below the image.
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| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 130 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date inferred from content. |
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Accessioned 1979. |
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Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
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Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Subject |
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Ely, Alfred, 1815-1892 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Elzey, Arnold, 1816-1871 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Lovejoy, O. -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Tyler, Daniel, 1799-1882 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861. |
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Spectators -- Virginia -- Manassas. |
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Zouaves -- New York (State) |
| Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns & battles. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military retreats. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1861-42W [P.2275.11a] |
| Accession number |
P.2275.11a |
