A Pocket Full of Wry

Cartoon published in Harper’s Weekly on September 21, 1861 and captioned “KING COTTON. Oh! Isn’t that a Dainty Dish to set before the King?"

From this drawing, it would seem the North still harbored ill feelings toward England and cared little if the blockade of Southern ports prevented the English from obtaining cotton.

The Hercules of 1861

"In this political cartoon, a Union officer (unidentified) swings a club labeled "Union" in defense against a many-headed serpent labeled "Secession." The serpent's heads are: Floyd, Pickens, Beauregard, Twiggs, Davis, Stephens, and Toombs, all leaders of the Southern secession movement and the resulting Confederacy. "
~ Courtesy of Civil War Treasures, New York Historical Society

It Only Hurts When I Laugh

Political Cartoon of the Anaconda Plan from the Collections of The Mariners' Museum