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An election year cartoon measuring Democratic candidate McClellan's military failures against the recent successes of his successor, Ulysses S. Grant. At right Grant, portrayed as a bulldog wearing a collar labeled "Lieut. General" and epaulets, sits…

Image from Harper's Weekly depicting the riots at New York - "The rioters burning and sacking the colored orphan asylum"

Photograph of Pancho Barnes taken sometime during the 1929 National Air Race in Cleveland.

An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to free blacks and enslave whites, not to save…

Cartoon shows a delegation of Copperheads entreating a Southerner to return to the Union.

Editorial cartoon shows three caricatured Copperheads advancing on Columbia who holds a shield labeled "Union" and a sword. Although Clement Vallandigham was one of the leading members of the Copperhead Party, it doesn't appear that he is among those…

Balloon Enterprise

June 16 1861

This point of observation commands an area near fifty miles in diameter-- The city with its girdle of encampments presents a superb scene-- I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from…

Lowe's intended flight from Cincinnati shown in red. Actual flight in blue.

Reproduction of a photograph of the storefront occupied by the Soldier's Aid Society on Bank Street, Cleveland, Ohio during the Civil War, ca. 1861-1865.

Carte de visite portrait of John Sherman, 1862. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 - 1861. He was elected United States Senator from Ohio in 1861 to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Salmon P. Chase.