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Cartoons of the Civil War

Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation Adalbert J. Volck, Baltimore, 1864. In this lithograph, Lincoln's foot rests on a bound copy of the Constitution and the devil's inkpot furnishes ink for his writing. On the wall hangs a portrait of John Brown, labeled "St. Ossawotomie," and a depiction of rioting and bloodshed in "St. Domingo" following the abolition of slavery there.

	Abraham Lincoln 1860-1865
	The Election of 1860 & 1864

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