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"When I wish to catch rats, I first stop their holes" - Gen'l Scott

"When I wish to catch rats, I first stop their holes" - Gen'l Scott

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Print shows an anti-Confederacy cartoon advocating General Scott's blockade of the South, with Union ships in a circle outside Confederate centers labeled "Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Mississippi, Manassas Gap, [and] Pensacola" as well as "Washington", and an inner circle showing a cat next to Washington, with mice coming from the Confederate centers, heading toward Harper's Ferry at the center.

Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

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01/01/1861
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