- Collection:
- Civil War
- Title:
- [Visitors observing view from point at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park]
- Creator:
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Publisher:
- Philadelphia : Published by King & Baird, Printers, 1865.
- Date of Original:
- 1865
- Subject:
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Capture and imprisonment
Andersonville Prison--1860-1870
Prisoners of war--Confederate--Virginia--1860-1870
Prisoners of war--Union--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870
Fort Monroe (Va.)--1860-1870
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--Confederate
Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870
Prisons--Virginia--1860-1870 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, Allatoona Pass, 34.1151, -84.59938
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675 - Medium:
- political cartoons
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Caption 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. - Local Identifier:
- PC/US - 1865.N265, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]
2008661832
cph 3b47014 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b47014
LC-DIG-ppmsca-05574 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-59398 (b&w film copy neg.) - Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2008661832/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 print : wood engraving.
- Original Collection:
- National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
