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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05986 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 |
| Title | A Traitor's Peace that the Northern Copperhead Leaders Would Force Upon the Country |
| Date | ca. 1864 |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | Election broadside printed by McGill & Witherow in Washington D.C. for the Congressional Union Committee, with an engraving by Thomas Nast, from Harper's Magazine. Very similar to GLC06032 - same image and text, but different title (although, this document is in better condition). Image at top half of broadside shows a ragged Northern soldier with an amputated leg shaking hands with an erect and proud Jefferson Davis in the uniform of a Confederate soldier over the freshly dug grave of "Union-Heroes who fell in a useless war." Davis's right foot is sitting on the grave and has snapped a sword with the words "northern power." The female image of liberty weeps at the foot of the Northern soldier. Bottom half of broadside reproduces Copperhead conditions of peace that were published in the Richmond Enquirer on 16 October 1864. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Election Government and Civics President Politics Copperheads Peace Republican Party Democratic Party Injury or Wound Death Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics; The Presidency |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |