The Attack AT 'Man-asses-gap.'

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Creator / Contributor: Kline, A.C.
Title: The Attack AT 'Man-asses-gap.'
Collection Title: Patriotic envelope collection. Series I: Civil War envelopes, 1861-1865.
Publisher: New-York Historical Society
Description: Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. Zouave soldier pointing his bayonet at a man with an oversized ass head. Cream envelope with gray ink. Image on left side. Printed below image: '[Copyright secured.] / THE ATTACK AT / 'Man-asses-gap' Junction.'
Notes: The caricature of a soldier with the head of a donkey is likely a caricature of a Confederate soldier; the only Zouave regiment to have fought at the First Battle of Bull Run was 11th New York Infantry Regiment (known also as Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves).
Institution: New-York Historical Society
Identifier: aj89016.jpg
1690
Subject: Zouaves--1850-1860
Soldiers--Caricatures and cartoons
Manassas (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861
Material type or medium of original: Pictorial envelopes
Patriotic envelopes
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