Hercules of the Union

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, 28 May 1818 - 20 Feb 1893 Francis Wilkinson Pickens Unknown Jefferson Davis, 3 Jun 1808 - 6 Dec 1889 Winfield Scott, 13 Jun 1786 - 29 May 1866 David Emanuel Twiggs, 14 Feb 1790 - 15 Jul 1862 Robert Augustus Toombs, 2 Jul 1810 - 15 Dec 1885 Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 11 Feb 1812 - 4 Mar 1883

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About

To justify armed conflict with their fellow countrymen, printmakers in the North produced visual propaganda that vilified and dehumanized the South. This print features U.S. Army General Winfield Scott (1786–1866), a Virginia native who remained loyal to the Union, in the guise of the legendary hero Hercules, raising a club labeled “Liberty & Union” against a hydra labeled “Secession.” The seven heads of the mythical beast represent prominent Southern leaders, each labeled with his name and supposed crime. The print was published during the first months of the war and, significantly, does not include slavery among the South’s offenses.