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"The Hardest Shell Yet" |
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Cartoonist: Unknown |
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Source: Leslie's Illustrated |
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Date:
July 2, 1864, p. 240
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Click to see a large version of this cartoon |
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Caption:
Jeff Davis's breakfast spoilt by a shot from Baltimore.
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
The cartoonist interprets the renomination of President Abraham Lincoln by
the Republican National Convention in Baltimore as the Union's "Hardest
Shell Yet" against the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis's breakfast is
interrupted by the shell-imprinted with the face of Lincoln-shot through the
window from the Baltimore convention. The Confederate president's domestic slave
smiles in the doorway. |
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