'The Monitor set in danger, or, All's Well that End's Well', c.1862 by American School
© Bridgeman Art Library / American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- 'The Monitor set in danger, or, All's Well that End's Well', c.1862
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- AQS257111
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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political cartoon satirising the loss of Union ironclad warships; on the wall hangs a view of the CSS Alabama which for two years successfully blockaded Union trade with Europe, while Uncle Sam reads reports of pirates and blockade runners, ships that provided vital supplies to the Confederacy by slipping through opposing blockades; the USS Keokuk was an ironclad lost off Charleston, South Carolina in 1862 after only one month of service to the Union; 16th President of the US Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) stands by;
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