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Mephistopheles - General James H. Lane

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Etching by Adalbert Volck depicting General James H. Lane as Mephistopheles, the devil (or a friend of the devil). Why Volck chose to ridicule Lane, a Senator from Kansas, a state admitted to the Union during the Civil War, in this way is unclear. It may be that Southerners and their sympathizers viewed Lane as unscupulous and his actions on the field and in Congress as despicable. Lane's brigades helped numerous African Americans to flee slavery, and he personally put together one of the first African American regiments of the War.
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Digital Reproduction Of 1 Etching, 24 X 30.3 Cm.
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  1. Caricatures And Cartoons
  2. Etching
  3. Lane, James Henry, 1814 1866

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