(CIVIL WAR PRINTS) Ho For Fort Monroe the Steamer Bread and

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(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) Ho! For Fort Monroe, the Steamer Bread and Butter "Cow-an." Illustrated handbill, 4 x 8 1/2 inches, on an irregular slip of lined necessity paper; minor wrinkling and wear. [Virginia, 1865]

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Understanding humor across the centuries is always tricky. This inscrutable handbill features a vignette of an overseer with a whip driving slaves into Virginia's Union-held Fort Monroe over the caption "with the promised crew in the Navy Yard, will sail forthwith for Fort Monroe to keep company with Jeff Davis, stopping at Washington for Andy, Seward and Wells" (apparently new president Andrew Johnson and his cabinet). Next to it is a caricature of Pennsylvania Copperhead Hiester Clymer "on his way to the home of Jeff. Davis," and the text below reads "Colored Population Voted on the 8th, Niggers Vote To-day." Hummel, More Virginia Broadsides 743. One copy in OCLC, and none traced at auction.