Monday, September 19, 2011

The first thing that . . .

. . . met the Federal eye on entering the camp at Columbus was an effigy marked “Bill Seward, the Abolitionist.”  Not far distant was a similar representation of “Tilgham [sic] the traitor,” and a third one of “Floyd the runaway”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 25, 1862, p. 2

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