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Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans |
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“How Hancock Will (Not) Get the Soldier Vote” |
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Cartoonist: Unknown |
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Source: Harper's Weekly |
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Date:
August 28, 1880, p. 560
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
Although Republican presidential nominee James Garfield had been a Union general
during the Civil War, Democratic nominee Winfield Hancock was a career military
man, whose bravery at Gettysburg and other major Civil War battles earned him
the official Thanks of Congress and the nickname "Superb." Democrats
hoped that Hancock's military record would attract the substantial vote of Union
war veterans. In this cartoon, however, a wounded Union veteran informs Hancock
that he will not get the man's vote because of the nominee's political
associates. Hancock's "friends" are the two disreputable
personifications of Northern and Southern wings of the Democratic party,
respectively, the "shoulder-hitter" (left) and the former Confederate
soldier (right). (See the explanation for "Miss Columbia (to General H_____).") |
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Warning
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