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Election of 1864

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08166 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 16 October 1864 Pagination: Order a Copy

Election of 1864
"The degrading compromise that the Northern Copperhead leaders would force upon the country rebel terms of peace!!" Illustration of Jefferson Davis shaking hands with Union soldier who has lost a leg, over an image of a tombstone and Columbia weeping.

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