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
"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.
- Date
- 1828
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Anti-Jackson (pro-Adams) campaign literature; LOC: coffin handbills originated by editor John Binns, Philadelphia
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Leader
- John Quincy Adams
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1828 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingCard stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain: published 1828, US; LOC: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Broadside Collection, portfolio 229, no. 8; LC-USZ62-43901
Text on the object
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.
