An edition of Civil War limericks
(2014)
Civil War limericks
by Hayes, Charles H. (Artist)
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"This collection of original limericks focuses on the personalities and topics of the era. Each is accompanied by an original caricature illustration as well as text that expands on the subject. Topics include Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the last battle of the war"--
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Webster, Calhoun, and Clay : the Missouri Compromise
Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1853
William Lloyd Garrison : a northern secessionist
Charles Sumner : a severe caning
Roger B. Taney : the Dred Scott Decision
John Brown : the Raid on Harpers Ferry
Francis Pickens : South Carolina calls it quits
James Buchanan : a missed opportunity
Jefferson Finis Davis : first (and last) president
Varina Howell Davis : "Winnie"
Alexander Hamilton Stephens : the South's number two man
Abraham Lincoln : first inaugural address
Mary Todd Lincoln : First Hen
William Seward : stately Seward
Gideon Welles : dry-land sailor
Simon Cameron : crafty and grafty
Robert Anderson : heroic loser
Edmund Ruffin : first shot big shot
Winfield Scott : the Anaconda Plan
Irvin McDowell : First Manassas
Thomas J. Jackson : call him "Stonewall"
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard : birth of a symbol
Robert A. Toombs : presidential wannabe
Edwin M. Stanton : the Grumpy of Lincoln's cabinet
Felix Kirk Zollicoffer : brave but nearsighted
George B. McClellan : Little Mac builds an army
Henry Halleck : Old Brains
Gideon Pillow, Simon Buckner, and John Floyd : three blind mice
Julia Ward Howe : Battle Hymn
Ulysses S. Grant : unconditional surrender
Franklin Buchanan : the CSS Virginia
John Ericsson : a match for the Virginia
John B. Magruder : the showman of Yorktown
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham : fighting general
Albert Sydney Johnston : if only
Don Carlos Buell : second day at Shiloh
P.G.T. Beauregard : bumpy career
Belle Boyd : Belle of the Ball
Benjamin Franklin Butler : "Spoons" Butler
Ivan Turchin : war, Cossack style
Joseph E. Johnston : bad news and good news
Robert E. Lee : American hero
Richard Taylor : president's son
Generals Banks, Shields, and Fremont : Jackson's Valley magic
James Longstreet : Lee's war horse
Clara Barton : Angel of Mercy
John Pope : Second Manassas
Abraham Lincoln : emancipation
Ambrose E. Burnside : tough opponents
Oliver Otis Howard : Chancellorsville
Joseph Hooker : "Fighting" Joe and the hookers
Earl Van Dorn : more enemies than the Yanks
Emma Sansom : till the cows come home
Abel Streight : a bluff beats a Streight
John C. Pemberton : Seige at Vicksburg
George Gordon Meade : a step up
Richard S. Ewell : "Old Baldy"
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : downhill battle
George Pickett : just charge it
Lewis Addison Armistead : in charge of the charge
James Ewel Brown Stuart : AWOL at Gettysburg
William Clark Quantrill : the Kansas-Missouri War
George Armstrong Custer : Fighting Goldilocks
Elizabeth Van Lew : crazy like a fox
George H. Thomas : Rock of Chickamauga
William S. Rosecrans : not so rosy
Richard William Dowling : invasion stopper
Braxton Bragg : nothing to "Bragg" about
Judah P. Benjamin : Brainy Benjamin
John Singleton Mosby : Gray Ghost
Abraham Lincoln : Gettysburg Address
Nathan Bedford Forrest : War Wizard
Ambrose Powell Hill and Daniel Harvey Hill : Lee's two Hills
Ulric Dahlgren : assassination plotter
John C. Breckenridge : a boy does a man's job
Leonidas Polk : Fighting Bishop
Raphael Semmes : the CSS Alabama
William J. Hardee : the authority
Philip Seridan : burning the valley
David Glasgow Farragut : staying Mobile in the Bay
Jubal Early : Early came late
John Hunt Morgan : one raid too many
William Tucumseh Sherman : Firebug
Rose O'Neal Greenhow : you can't take it with you
Patrick R. Cleburne : Irish wisdom
John Bell Hood : Gallant Fool
William Tecumseh Sherman : up a creek
Lee and Grant : at Appomattox
John Wilkes Booth : last act
Jefferson Finis Davis : end of the road
Thaddeus Stevens : vendetta
William G. Brownlow : Poisonous Parson
Andrew Johnson : the Little Tailor
John "Rip" Ford : last battle
Sterling Price : governor to general
Joseph Wheeler : last hurrah.
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