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Strategy or Change of Base



Strategy or Change of Base
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Title: Strategy or Change of Base
Description: "Strategy or Change of Base". Photographic card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in women's clothing hoping to reach the Mississippi River and help what Confederate forces remained there. He was captured by Federal troops on May 10, 1865 and imprisoned.

Image ID: 70744
Creation
Date:
1865 
Creator
Name:
Unknown
Collection
Name:
Album 14 (The Civil War--Buildings, sites, battles, naval history, prisons)
Genre: Cartoons (humorous images)
Subjects: Trees
Civil War, 1861-1865
Couples
Dresses
Clothing and dress
Politicians
Officers
Cross dressing
 

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