Historical Illustration: An Au-Gust Convention

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

Historical Illustration: An Au-Gust Convention

1866

Historical Illustration

The Library of Congress presents an 1866 historical illustration that depicts the members of the National Union Convention--who met in August of 1866 to create a political party, called the National Union Party, to support President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan and elect a new Congress--as a group of muzzled dogs walking towards a dog house, guarded by two bigger dogs with smaller dogs in their mouths, with a sign above its entrance that says "Wigwam." In the foreground, a smaller dog with one end of a string tied to its tail and the other tied to a brush and a metal can is facing towards the White House in the background, which has a dog laying in front of it that appears to be deceased. 

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