. Civil War officers. Union . d medicines to the Confederacy. Hisart stands as a visual embodiment of the political atmospherewhich led a group of Maryland men (and one D. assistant) eventually to murder PresidentLincoln. John Wilkes Booth, a Maryland native, led thegroup. By 1864 printmakers knew more about Lincoln, and theirwork during his bid for reelection seized on some entirely newthemes. The rail was gone, and no single symbol sodominated cartoons as it had done four years earlier. Itsnearest competitor was Lincolns reputation for telling quality endears him to
. Civil War officers. Union . d medicines to the Confederacy. Hisart stands as a visual embodiment of the political atmospherewhich led a group of Maryland men (and one D. assistant) eventually to murder PresidentLincoln. John Wilkes Booth, a Maryland native, led thegroup. By 1864 printmakers knew more about Lincoln, and theirwork during his bid for reelection seized on some entirely newthemes. The rail was gone, and no single symbol sodominated cartoons as it had done four years earlier. Itsnearest competitor was Lincolns reputation for telling quality endears him to twentieth-century Americans,but it was less clearly a political asset in Lincolns earnestVictorian era. Cartoonists frequently attacked him as a merefrontier joker — too small for the job of President. Two of the better cartoons of the 1864 campaign capitalizedon Lincolns reputation as a lover of Shakespeares works. Howard depicted Lincolns Democratic rival for thePresidency, George B. McClellan, as Hamlet, holding the. mi «r«ve or me <m OR MAJOR JACK OOWNIHff1 DREAM OHAWB BY 2EKE From the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum FIGURE 6. Literary allusions were common. From the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum FIGURE 8. A crowded but effective cartoon. CONTROVERSIAL BEN BUTLER CHESTER D. BRADLEY Benjamin Franklin Butler was perhaps themost controversial general in the Union was impulsive, opinionated, sarcastic,highly critical and totally unafraid. Whereverhe went, this pugnacious citizen-soldier fromMassachusetts made himself heard and in the Civil War he occupied theunruly city of Baltimore without authoriza-tion, thus alarming President Lincoln, whowas trying to keep Maryland and the otherborder states from being swept into the seces-sion movement. Butler was called to Wash-ington where he was offered the commandof Fort Monroe. He was loath to leave Balti-more. However, President Lincoln urged himto accept. General Winfield Scott,
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