PRO-LINCOLN/ANTI-McCLELLAN 1864 "COPPERHEAD TICKET FOR SALT RIVER."
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Auction #206 - Part I
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Item Description
2.5x4.5" stiff ticket predicting McClellan's 1864 election loss. Text to left of caricature reads "Little 'Mac' As He Appeared In His Parlor On The Morning After The Election, Waiting To Be Informed Of The Result, By The Friends Of Free Speech, Free Press, Or Free Fight, Vallandigham & Co. Prof. Train Will Hold A "Post Mortem' Examination Of The Defunct 'Carcass'." Text at top and at right reads "Little 'Mac' Is Informed That 'Honest Abe' Can Furnish Him With Another Gunboat, & Give Him Command Of The 'Saline Department' For The Next Four Years, Where, With His Copperhead Brigade, He Can Exercise His Military Genius In Capturing Quaker Guns, And Deserted Yorktowns." Rare and NM. See Salt River 1912 button #250.
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