The Commander-in-Chief conciliating the soldier's votes on the battle field – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Commander-in-Chief conciliating the soldier's votes on the battle field. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Commander-in-Chief conciliating the soldier's votes on the battle field
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Its title casts Abraham Lincoln as the Commander-in-Chief courting the votes of soldiers in the field, a pointed image from the 1864 presidential campaign. That year, Congress had recently moved to let soldiers vote in federal elections from the front, and the army's ballots were widely expected to matter in the contest with George B. McClellan. The record also lists prisons among its subjects, suggesting the satire touches on the treatment of captured men or the politics surrounding them. Lithographs like this one were cheap and circulated quickly, so they show how partisan audiences read the war and the election.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 29.4 x 41.8 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Satires (Visual works) 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed with monogram: CAL? Title appears as it is written on the item. Century, p. 110-111. Lorant, p. 263. Weitenkampf, p. 141. Wilson, p. 292-293. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-30. |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. Prisons--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,708 × 4,604 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226074 |
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