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The Confederacy in petticoats

Description

Abstract:
Lithograph; caricature of Jefferson Davis, in female attire, exclaiming "I thought your Government was too Magnanimous to hunt down “Women & Children," caught by 2 Union soldiers while attempting escape over fence, Davis's wife on right who remarks “Don’t irritate the ‘President’ he might hurt somebody.”
Notes:
Oblong medium folio, matted; margins intact; soiled, torn.
Presented, 1945, by Clarence Brigham, American Antiquarian Society.

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

"The Confederacy in petticoats" (1865). Digital Transgender Archive, Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:233637/

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    This collection represents Brown University Library’s digital materials made available to the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA). The DTA collects materials about self-identified trans people, transsexuality, genders outside of western binaries, and a diverse range of gender nonconforming identities, practices, and …
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  • Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

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