2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/29/2022
Print 10-1/2" x 13-1/4", withdrawn from the British publication, PUNCH, 1862, VG. Titled "Retrogression (A Very Sad Picture. War Dance of the I.O.U. Indian", with caption "The Federals sank several ships laden with stones at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, and otherwise impeded the navigation - February, 1862". The illustration shows Uncle Sam in war feathers holding a war club holding a flag made of the New York Herald, dancing in glee on the shores of a deserted harbor across which stretched a row of sunken ships. In December 1861, the United States Navy had sunk 16 ships in the channels leading into Charleston Harbor. They were mostly old whalers, junk that the Union had bought at reduced rates. The ships were filled with New England granite, then scuttled to serve as barricades. The wrecks would either stop traffic or tear the keel out of any ship that didn't yield.
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