Composite CDV showing the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis by Federal troops. Davis is shown holding a large Bowie knife, trying to escape in a dress. Photographed by Shaw and dated 1865 on verso. Following his flight and capture (reported in the press as having been apprehended dressed as a woman) the ex-President was depicted in a series of derisive, humorous "cartoons" that illustrated the prevailing story line at Davis' expense. Throughout the war, Davis had been singled out for mockery, being variously depicted as a devil with horns, a viperous fork-tongued slave owner breathing fire and so forth. The President of the Confederacy was conveniently demonized as the enemy of the North, as was Lincoln in the South.
Composite CDV showing the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis by Federal troops. Davis is shown holding a large Bowie knife, trying to escape in a dress. Photographed by Shaw and dated 1865 on verso. Following his flight and capture (reported in the press as having been apprehended dressed as a woman) the ex-President was depicted in a series of derisive, humorous "cartoons" that illustrated the prevailing story line at Davis' expense. Throughout the war, Davis had been singled out for mockery, being variously depicted as a devil with horns, a viperous fork-tongued slave owner breathing fire and so forth. The President of the Confederacy was conveniently demonized as the enemy of the North, as was Lincoln in the South.
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