Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Andersonville, 32.19599, -84.13991United States, Virginia, Hampton, Fort Monroe, 37.00561, -76.304861865Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures Memory": Reconstruction. Thomas Nast was the most influential political cartoonist in nineteenth-century America. His editorial cartoons for Harper's Weekly, which he joined in 1862, helped inflame Union sentiment during the Civil War. Nast became one of the most visible and voluble critics of the inadequacies of post-war Reconstruction, which was initiated by Lincoln and carried out by his successor Andrew Johnson. This rampant divisiveness is made apparent when Nast sharply juxtaposes the degradation of Union prisoners at Andersonville with the comfort afforded fallen Confederate president Jefferson Davis during his confinement at Fort Monroe.Published by King & Baird, Printers, Philadelphia.Signed in block: Th. Nast.Title appears as it is written on the item.Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-2005.PC/US - 1865.N265, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]2008661832cph 3b47014 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b47014ppmsca 05574 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05574LC-DIG-ppmsca-05574 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-59398 (b&w film copy neg.)engPhiladelphia : Published by King & Baird, Printershttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)Andersonville Prison--1860-1870Prisoners of war--Confederate--Virginia--1860-1870Prisoners of war--Union--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870Prisons--Virginia--1860-1870Fort Monroe (Va.)--1860-1870United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--ConfederateUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--UnionUnion soldiers in Andersonville prison / The rebel leader, Jeff Davis, at Fortress Monroe / Th. Nast.StillImage