Columbia demands her children
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Columbia demands her children
Columbia demands her children!. An impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500, 000 sons!!! At the right, Lincoln, unfazed, sits at a writing desk, his leg thrown over the chair back. A proclamation calling for 500 Thous. More Troops, signed by him, lies at his feet. He replies, Well the fact is--by the way that reminds me of a Story!!! The artist refers to the false report published by the New York World that Lincoln joked on the battlefield of Antietam. (See The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldiers Votes, no. 1864-30.). Date 1864. Columbia demands her children!. An impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500, 000 sons!!! At the right, Lincoln, unfazed, sits at a writing desk, his leg thrown over the chair back. A proclamation calling for 500 Thous. More Troops, signed by him, lies at his feet. He replies, Well the fact is--by the way that reminds me of a Story!!! The artist refers to the false report published by the New York World that Lincoln joked on the battlefield of Antietam. (See The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldiers Votes, no. 1864-30.). Date 1864
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