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TITLE: The gunboat candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill CALL NUMBER: Stern Collection, v. 4, no. 9 c-Rare Bk Coll REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-92038 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY: Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan is lampooned as an incompetent military leader. He sits in a saddle mounted on the boom of the Union ironclad vessel "Galena." The print recalls two prominent failures in McClellan's tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, which haunted him during the 1864 campaign. The "Galena," a Union ironclad leading a flotilla of Union gunboats against Richmond, was driven back and badly damaged by Confederate batteries just miles from the capital in May 1862. McClellan was criticized for refusing to bring nearby land troops to the navy's aid. Shortly thereafter McClellan's peninsular campaign toward Richmond came to a disastrous conclusion with the Battle of Malvern Hill, shown here raging in the background. McClellan's troops retreated to the protection of naval guns, effectively ending the Union threat to Richmond. The artist shows McClellan viewing the battle through a telescope from his safe perch. He calls to the troops, "Fight on my brave Soldiers and push the enemy to the wall, from this spanker boom your beloved General looks down upon you." MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 26 x 34 cm (image) |
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- Political cartoons from the United States presidential election, 1864
- Caricatures of George McClellan
- Watching in art
- Sitting men in art
- People with watercraft
- American Civil War cartoons
- Men facing left and looking left in art
- United States Democratic Party 1864 presidential campaign
- Currier and Ives Civil War lithographs
- USS Galena (ship, 1862)