Wartime Reconstruction This cartoon from the presidential campaign of 1864 shows the “Rail Splitter” Abraham Lincoln leveraging the broken nation back together while his running mate, Andrew Johnson, who once was a tailor by trade, stitches the Confederate states securely back into the Union. Optimism that the task of reconstructing the nation after the war would be both quick and easy shines through the cartoon.
The Granger Collection, New York.