Running the Machine,c1864,Stanton,Seward,Lincoln,Fort Lafayette,Fessenden,Navy

Title: Running the 'machine'
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Related Names:
Cameron, John, b. ca. 1828 , artist
Date Created/Published: [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y., c1864.
Summary: A scathing attack on the ineptness and military ineffectualness of the Lincoln administration. The cartoon derives its title from an indiscreet letter written by secretary of war Edwin McMasters Stanton to past President James Buchanan immediately following the Union army's defeat at the Battle of Bull Run. Stanton wrote ' William Pitt Fessenden. 'Chase's Patent Greenback Mill.' Fessenden succeeded Salmon P. Chase as Treasury secretary. William H. Seward, Navy secretary Gideon Welles, [Union general John A. Dix] The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldiers Votes, 'Fort Lafayette' Seward Gideon Welles. Probably drawn by John Cameron.
Currier & Ives :Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Wilson, pp. 274-275
Weitenkampf, p. 141
Century, p. 108-109
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-7.
Subjects:
Army (U.S.)
Bull Run, Battle of.
Chase, Salmon P.
Currency and currency policy b8saDix, John A.
Fessenden, William P.
Fort Lafayette.
Lincoln, Abraham, and 1864 presidential race.
Navy (U.S.).
Seward, William H., as secretary of state.
Stanton, Edwin M.
Treasury of the United States.
War Department.
Welles, Gideon.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870
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