1864 Irish Private Miles O’Reilly Lincoln Slavery Racism Civil War Illustrated



“Truth, by arraying itself in the garb of humor, may often attract the attention which has been denied to her most serious appeals.”

Charles Halpine



Charles Graham Halpine was an Irish American journalist, poet, and soldier for the Union during the American Civil War, eventually rising to Colonel. Much of his poetry was written using the pseudonym Miles O’Reilly, a fictitious low-ranking Irish soldier. ‘The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O’Reilly’ is a collection of sketches where Halpine draws on Irish antipathy to blacks and embraces racism to persuade recalcitrant democrats to support the war, with scenes in which Halpine plays out Lincoln pardoning O’Reilly upon witnessing his performance in the Oval office of ‘Sambo’s Right to Be Kilt.’ Writings such as Halpine’s brought the Lincoln administration into a close affinity with satire and in turn made Lincoln’s image that much more difficult to assail satirically.



This 1864 first edition includes 13 black and white comic illustrations by Mullen.



Item number: #9851

Price: $299



HALPINE, Charles G (pseud. Miles O’Reiley)



The life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of private Miles O'Reilly



New York: Carleton, 1864. 1st edition



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[7], viii-x, 237, [3]

13 illustrations

References: BAL 7010; Alice Fahs: The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865; The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire by Todd Nathan Thompson;

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)



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