The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier\u27s Votes on the Battle Field

The print is a reproduction of an 1864 political cartoon. In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln is shown holding a plaid Scotch cap on a battlefield surrounded by dead and wounded soldiers. He asks one to sing Picayune Butler or something funny. The cartoon is anti-Lincoln and echoes contemporaneous news reports that reported Lincoln allegedly joking while visiting the Antietam Battlefield and his supposed disregard for the well-being of soldiers. The print is organized and stored in a black album with other reproductive prints. bitterly anti-Lincoln cartoon, based on slanderous newspaper reports of the President\u27s callous disregard of the misery of Union troops at the front. The story that Lincoln had joked on the field at Antietam appeared in the New York World. Holding a plaid Scotch cap (see Abraham\u27s Dream-- Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before, no. 1864-42), Lincoln stands on the battlefield at Antietam, which is littered with Union dead and wounded. He instructs his friend Marshal Lamon, who stands with his back toward the viewer and his hand over his face, to sing us P̀icayune Butler,\u27 or something else that\u27s funny.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-cartoons/1127/thumbnail.jp