This black-and-white cartoon, ca. June 1861, mockingly depicts Confederate General Sterling Price “taken with a Violent Diarrhea” at the beginning of the Battle of Boonville. Price is depicted in military uniform with his pants down, saying “I didn’t think the Smell of Gun-powder would have such an effect on my Bowels.” A note below the cartoon refers readers to the daily papers from June 20, 1861.

Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement
Picturing the War
Missouri military units (Confederate)

Sterling Price

Cooper County, Missouri

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Abiel Leonard and Odon Guitar Papers, Group 1, Box 1: Folder 7

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