“Beauty and Booty”, “ruthless tyrant’s march”, “Hessians”. So far the South has found lots of ways to put down the North and strike a little extra fear into the hearts of Southerners as the Union army invades.
150 years ago this week Harper’s Weekly (June 7, 1862) published this cartoon, which makes out the “Secesh” minions to be savages. As I was looking at this at Son of the South, it struck me that there was a parallel between the cartoon’s point and the stories we were told about the Plains Indians using every last bit of the buffalo they killed.
Some Specimens of 'Secesh' Industry—intended for the London Exhibition of 1862, but unfortunately intercepted by the 'Paper Blockade.'
George Custer doesn’t look too scared of a rebel prisoner bagged at Fair Oaks.
Custer poses with 'the enemy'
Here’s a view of London’s International Exhibition of 1862:
Blockade does its work? no Yankee jaw-bone paperweights on view
