Category: Feature

The Four Years Contract and its Progress Published by Nichols in Boston, this cartoon criticizes the Lincoln administration’s mismanagement of the war. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

Columbia demands her children! An impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

The Commander-in-Chief conciliating the soldier’s votes on the battlefield A bitterly anti-Lincoln cartoon, based on slanderous newspaper reports of the President’s callous disregard of the misery of Union troops at the front. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

The sportsman upset by the recoil of his own gun. Lincoln is portrayed as meek and ineffectual in his prosecution of the war. In a wooded scene Lincoln, here in the character of an Irish sportsman in knee-breeches, discharges his blunderbuss at a small bird “C.S.A.” (Confederate States of America)… View the feature in its… Continue reading The sportsman upset by the recoil of his own gun.

The Presidents Inaugural Nast portrays the northern reaction to the Presidents inaugural speech. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

A Fit for the Ladies League During the war, many women’s rights organizations were lobbying for the right to free speech. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

The Pending Conflict This cartoon reflects grave northern fears of British and French interference on behalf of the Confederacy in the Civil War: View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

The Blockade on the Connecticut Plan The artist ridicules the government’s early efforts to overhaul and augment a somewhat outdated Union fleet to blockade Southern ports… View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

Running the “machine” A scathing attack on the ineptness and military ineffectualness of the Lincoln administration. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner

To the Victors Belong the Spoils Patronage was a major problem for the incoming Lincoln administration and a constant vexation for the new chief executive. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln’s Classroom – Cartoon Corner