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Title Swaggering like some great high-grandee.
Publisher [New York] : T.W. Strong, New-York.
Date [1861-1865?]
Description A Union soldier holds a bouquet of red roses and a sword. In addition to his uniform, he wears a monocle and cap, suggesting that he is a dandy. The sender mocks the recipient's inflated sense of his attractiveness.
Notes Text: Swaggering like some great high-grandee, / How d'ye do, my Soldier Dandy; / The girls, you think, no doubt get sweet / On you as you strut through the street. / But they're more apt to think you scamp, / When you're found roaming from your camp.
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Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Dandies -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.480.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 10.29