A cartoon from Harper’s Weekly from October 26, 1861, from when the Civil War was but half a year old or so and there was still three and a half years of fighting to go. The suggestions on what to do with female traitors are pretty self-explanatory. There’s a transcription below.
The captions:
(via JF Ptak Science Books)
The captions:
- “Let them See but not touch all the latest novelties in Hats, Dry Goods, etc.”
- “Send them to the Alms House to nurse refractory babies”
- “Have the fashionable intelligence read in their hearing to their intense aggravation”
- “Make them wear very unfashionable uniform as e.g. the above”
- “Let them do Housework under the Superintendence of Biddy”
(via JF Ptak Science Books)
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