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Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in April 1865 may have marked the military end to the war, while the end of Reconstruction in 1877, and the triumph of Redemptionist politics in the former Confederate States, may stand as alternative landmarks in a not so unanimously-embraced closure of the Rebellion.
The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal about the lack of permanence and the constant struggle to make images “mean”, even for an event as momentous as the American Civil War.
Bloody shirt, in U.S. history, the post-Civil War political strategy of appealing to voters by recalling the passions and hardships of the recent war. This technique of “waving the bloody shirt” was most often employed by Radical Republicans in their efforts to focus public attention on.
Waving the bloody shirt. Puck cartoon ridiculing Republican Senator John Sherman for his use of "bloody shirt" memories of the Civil War in 1887, more than two decades after the war ended. " Waving the bloody shirt " and " bloody shirt campaign " were pejorative phrases, used during American election campaigns during the Reconstruction era, to ...
Abstract. The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal about the lack of permanence and the constant struggle to make images “mean”, even...
30 sty 2008 · Years later, years after the Civil War, scornful stories about Northerners exhibiting Sumner’s bloody shirt were still being circulated in the South. Not a scrap of it was true.
This cartoon, titled “The ‘Bloody Shirt’ Reformed,” is meant to create an even stronger image in protest against the violent measures meant to directly interfere with the democratic system. In this drawing, a woman is holding an unbalanced scale on which six blacks and one white lie dead.
