About this Image
Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan is lampooned as an incompetent military leader. He sits in a saddle mounted on the boom of the Union ironclad vessel "Galena." The print recalls two prominent failures in McClellan's tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, which haunted him during the 1864 campaign. The "Galena," a Union ironclad leading a flotilla of Union gunboats against Richmond, was driven back and badly damaged by Confederate batteries just miles from the capital in May 1862. McClellan was criticized for refusing to bring nearby land troops to the navy's aid. Shortly thereafter McClellan's peninsular campaign toward Richmond came to a disastrous conclusion with the Battle of Malvern Hill, shown here raging in the background. McClellan's troops retreated to the protection of naval guns, effectively ending the Union threat to Richmond. The artist shows McClellan viewing the battle through a telescope from his safe perch. He calls to the troops, "Fight on my brave Soldiers and push the enemy to the wall, from this spanker boom your beloved General looks down upon you." Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Full Title
The Gunboat Candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill.
Contributor(s)
Creator: Currier & Ives
Publisher
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N. Y
Date Issued
1864
Language
English
Type
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2016-11-28
Identifier
769.973 PR 0062
https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10764510
photographs-prints_6
Note
Phase One P40+
Alex Japha
400
Subject (LCSH)
Record Origin
Converted from Dublin Core to MODS during migration from CONTENTdm to Islandora
Ives, C. &. (1864). The Gunboat Candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill. (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/gunboat
Ives, Currier &. 1864. “The Gunboat Candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/gunboat.
Ives, Currier &. The Gunboat Candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill. 1864, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/gunboat.