Petroleum V. Nasby, Locke’s bigoted, office-hungry Copperhead preacher, writes from Confedrit X Roads, Kentucky, on the politics of 1865 and 1866, Andrew Johnson’s disastrous speaking tour and the struggle over Reconstruction. Every letter, in phonetic dialect, damns its writer and his party, and Thomas Nast supplies the pictures.
Biting Reconstruction satire whose racist language belongs to Nasby, the target of the joke; a key source on Civil War-era humour. Download the free EPUB.