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The Army of the Potomac — Drawing Rations
...competent but not noticeably different from those sketched by Alfred Waud and Theodore Davis at the front, or Winslow Homer in New York. Drawing Rations was notable for the Black...
The Drummer Boy of Our Regiment — Eight War Scenes
...troops except possibly at the commencement of a battle before the fighting began. Clem was discharged a year later at age 13, made the army his career as an adult,...
The Hero of Gettysburg
...over the Union army, now commanded by Joseph Hooker, at Chancellorsville, Virginia. (Lincoln had replaced Ambrose Burnside with Hooker after Burnside’s disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg the previous December.) However, the...
The Press on the Field
...names of the wounded and dead (lower left center); drawing the complete picture from notes and quick sketches; and finally showing an original sketchbook. As Harper’s pointed out in its...
Altered Condition of Affairs
...to Hotspur; “Why so can I, or so can any man, but they will come when you do call for them?” replied Hotspur. That was a problem Davis never solved....
The “Liberal” Conspirators (Who, You All Know, Are Honorable Men)
...was questionable from the start. In his cartoon demeaning The “Liberal” Conspirators (Who, You All Know, Are Honorable Men), Nast quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, comparing Grant to Caesar; not...
A Few Washington Sketches — In the Senate
Harper’s Weekly – March 23, 1872 Senator Lyman Trumbull (IL) was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1871, he and Senator Carl Schurz had created a tempest in a...
United States Senate Theatre
...in early 1869 when Schurz was a brand new Senator, they conversed in German. Schurz compared the American government unfavorably with Germany’s, ending with “All the Americans are fools!” Nast’s...
A Step in the Right Direction
Harper’s Weekly – June 6, 1874 Earlier in 1874, as two conflicting factions competed for state control of Reconstruction in Arkansas, Grant stepped in by backing the elected Republican —...
“Upon What Meat Doth This Our Caesar Feed That He Hath Grown So Great?”
...anti-Grant press also included Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Murat Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial as “(very cool) cucumbers,” and Samuel Bowles’ Springfield Republican as “Bowles of Soup.”...