Swing Around the Circle
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Swing Around the Circle is the nickname for a speaking campaign undertaken by U.S. President Andrew Johnson between August 27 and September 15, 1866, in which he tried to gain support for his obstructionist Reconstruction policies and for his preferred candidates in the forthcoming midterm Congressional elections. The tour's nickname came from the route that the campaign took: "Washington, D.C., to New York, west to Chicago, south to St. Louis, and east through the Ohio River valley back to the nation's capital".
Photograph of U.S. President Andrew Johnson at a banquet in his honor during the Swing Around the Circle speaking tour. Johnson appears seated in the center, with General Ulysses S. Grant to his left and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to his right
Image from Swingin' Round the Cirkle, or Andy's trip to the West by Petroleum V. Nasby: (1) Andrew Johnson, (2) ?, (3) William H. Seward(??), (4) Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, (5) Adm. David Farragut, (6) ?, (7) Gideon Welles(??), (8) ?, (9) ?
"Appalling calamity at Johnstown, Pa., on Friday, Sept. 14th, caused by the falling of a railroad bridge crowded with the citizens of the town, during the visit of President Johnson" (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Oct. 6, 1866)
"Andy's Trip," a lampooning of Johnson's "Swing Around the Circle" campaign tour by cartoonist Thomas Nast
George Armstrong Custer
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George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
USMA Cadet George Armstrong "Autie" Custer, ca. 1859 with a Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver.
Custer with former classmate, friend, and captured Confederate soldier, Lieutenant James Barroll Washington, an aide to General Johnston, at Fair Oaks, Virginia, 1862
Custer (extreme right) with President Lincoln, General McClellan and other officers at the Battle of Antietam, 1862