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title: '"Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson" coffin handbill (1828)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bloody-deeds-coffin-handbill-adams-1828/
description: 'Broadside headed "Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson": six black coffin woodcuts, each labelled with the name of an executed…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Campaign broadside by Adams supporters with coffin woodcuts, accounts of executions and a woodcut of an assault; the charges against Jackson are partisan allegations, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# "Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson" coffin handbill (1828)

Broadside headed "Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson": six black coffin woodcuts, each labelled with the name of an executed militiaman, run above dense columns of narrative, with more coffins, a woodcut of Jackson striking a man, and a statement signed by Thomas Hart Benton. The loaded title and the list built only from killings charged against Jackson are the tells.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds
OF
GENERAL JACKSON.

[Names printed above six coffin woodcuts, left to right:] Jacob Webb / David Morrow / John Harris / Henry Lewis / David Hunt / Edward Lindsey

A brief account of the Execution of the Six Militia Men. [illegible: opening paragraph]

Harris was a Baptist preacher, with a large family. [illegible: remainder of the six dense columns of narrative]

MOURNFUL TRAGEDY: [illegible: six columns of verse beneath]

[illegible: seven further coffin woodcuts and columns of text; woodcut at right of Jackson striking a man; further blocks of text, including numbered statements]

THOMAS HART BENTON, Lieut. Col. 39th Infantry,
And now a member of the Senate of the United States.
```

PARTIAL transcription. Only the headings, coffin names, first words of the first column ('A brief account of the Execution of the Six Militia Men'; 'Harris was a Baptist preacher, with a large family') and the signature are legible at LOC's resolution; the body columns, verse, lower blocks and numbered statements are marked [illegible] rather than guessed. An unverifiable opening paragraph was removed.

[← The Examiner, No. 608, 22 August 1819, 'Disturbances at Manchester' (Peterloo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/examiner-disturbances-at-manchester-1819/) ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/)

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