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Title	Comicalities of the War for the Union
Creator	Unknown
Date	1864
Finding number	CGA.AC.AP7.016
Start Date	1864
End date	1864
Genre	Editorial cartoon Print
Subject	Civil war Generals Military Virginia
Related people	Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 Butterfield, Daniel, 1831-1901 Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903 Corcoran, Michael, 1827-1863. Couch, Darius Nash Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879 Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893 Duryee, Abram, 1815-1890 Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 Fremont, John C. (John Charles), 1813-1890 Grant, Ulysses S. Halleck, Henry Wager, 1815-1872 Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886 Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879 Hunter, David, 1802-1886 Kearny, Philip, 1815-1862 Kelley, Benjamin Franklin, 1807-1891 Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891 Lander, Frederick West, 1821-1862 Lyon, Nathaniel, -1861 Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno, 1803-1862 McClellan, George B. (George Brinton) McCook, Alexander McDowell, 1831-1903 Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867 Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809-1862 Richardson, Israel Bush, 1815-1862 Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Sedgwick, John, 1813-1864 Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902 Sprague, William, 1830-1915 Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862 Viele, Egbert Ludovicus, 1825-1902 Wadsworth, James S. (James Samuel), 1807-1864 Weber, Max, 1824-1901
Shown	American flags Collapsed hot air balloon Cotton Dogs Donkeys Elephant Fireman Gallows Rams Skeleton Skulls Soldiers Turtle
Medium	Engraving
Width (cm)	63.500
Height (cm)	46.100
Collection	The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Description	Portraits of "Union Heros" surround reprint of twenty comic drawings from Civil War envelopes. "Panorama of the Seat of War" on verso; a map of Virginia with timeline and locations of battles and portraits of Grant, Halleck, McClellen, Farragut, Burnside, Banks, Dix, and Sigel at top. Broadsheet. Printed in Cleveland.
Credit line	The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Accession number	CGA.PUR.2014
Version	original art

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