What is the significance of the slogan "waving the bloody shirt?"
President Ulysses Grant
waving the bloody shirt
waving the bloody shirt
It's called "Waving the Bloody Shirt."
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it meant that.. say you are a soldier and fought for General McDonald. now McDonald is running for president. Because you fought under General McDonald, you must vote for him as an act of loyalty because he was a great general and he will be a great president.
Bloody Mary lived in the mirror
the civil war
A women's shirt may be referred to simply as a "shirt" or may be specified as a "blouse" if it is more formal or dressy in style.
post civil war sectional tensions
The Grand Army of the Republic. The G. A. R. had a camp in every northern town, and strongly supported "the party of Lincoln", routinely "waving the bloody shirt" and denouncing the Democrats as the party of "rum, romanism and rebellion".