Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union

It shows the outline of 42 states and Indian Territory, a Civil War battle scene, and Liberty holding U.S. flag and sword riding on the back of an eagle, Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet (the secretaries linked to images of the Army, Navy, Treasury, Interior, P.O.

"[1] The diagram is designed by Noah Mendal Shafer, who was an attorney, counsellor at law and inventor.

Onion (2014) interpreted that Mendal Shafer aimed "to end the conflict between North and South through education.

About seven years earlier around 1854 the Scottish-American engineer Daniel McCallum created the first organizational chart of American business,[8] which was drawn by George Holt Henshaw.

[9] In the same time, that Mendal Shafer presented his work in Cincinnati and in New York, in Washington the civil engineer John Y. Culyer and assistant to Frederick Law Olmsted designed a modern organizational chart of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

This map was designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

The print shows on the right side the "illustration of 'The soldier's dream' in which a soldier asleep on the ground during the Civil War dreams of returning home to loved ones; left side illustration shows bust portrait of Andrew Johnson with cameo portraits of the previous sixteen presidents and sixteen generals who fought during the Civil War.

It is noted, that in 1864 Mendal Shafer delivered his Diagram of the Federal Government to the Board of Education of the City of New York, which passed it along to the Committee on Course of Studies and School Books without any further comments.

[3][2] By the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the political landscape was radically altered and the diagram was probably outdated.

with a "Description of the functions and duties of the branches of government with vignettes of Lincoln and historical scenes" for the price of $100,[15] and a 1975 book on U.S. Civil War store cards listed the map as well.