Reconstruction on "My Policy"

COMITATUS, Zedekiah. Reconstruction on "My Policy;" Or, The Author at the Confessional. Skaggaddahunk [i.e. New York?]: Scantlewood, Timberlake & Co., 1866. 29pp. Orig. printed brown wrappers. Losses to top outer corners of last leaf and rear wrapper, top outer corner of most leaves slightly insect-damaged, final five leaves dampstained, else very good. Sabin 14952. A scarce pseudonymous satire on Reconstruction in verse, written from the first-person perspective of Andrew Johnson, railing against the states where his Reconstruction efforts have struggled. Comitatus has not been identified. The author also wrote a fictitious diatribe against Charles Dickens' second visit to America (a reading tour beginning in November 1867) under the same "Skaggadahunk" imprint, entitled "An Epistle to 'Boz' Alias Charles Dickens.".