(CIVIL WAR) The Policy of McClellan Followed by Grant has Gi

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(CIVIL WAR.) The Policy of McClellan, Followed by Grant, has Given us the Victory! Letterpress broadside, 8 x 18 3/4 inches; folds, minor foxing. [New York?, circa April 1865?]

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A rather mysterious production, apparently produced to celebrate the end of the war, and found among the papers of New York merchant Charles A. Moore of 659 Broadway. The mystery is why Generals McClellan and Grant are celebrated as the architects of victory, while Lincoln is ignored. McClellan was a comparatively passive general, opposed Lincoln as a Democrat in the 1864 presidential election, and then kept a low profile until well after the war. Grant was an aggressive general, was closely associated with Lincoln, and later became a prominent Republican. This broadside may have been produced in the scant days between the Confederate surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination, perhaps in an effort to rehabilitate McClellan's reputation by linking him to the more popular Grant. Perhaps you might have a better theory? No other copies traced.