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Uncle Sam (ang. Uncle Sam) is an imaginary character who is the personification of the United States. This character was and is presented as an elderly gray-haired man, the so-called with a goatee, wearing a top hat in the colors of the USA and a frock coat and - often - trousers with white and red stripes, obviously referring to the flag of the United States. The genesis of Uncle Sam dates back to the British-American War of 1812, but it is fairly widely accepted that the current image of Uncle Sam developed during and shortly after the Civil War (1861-1865). During this period, the US President Abraham Lincoln was portrayed as Uncle Sam, which image spread very quickly, and after the tragic death of the president in 1865 - it became permanent in the minds of US citizens, especially in the northern states. It is worth adding that Samuel Wilson served as a specific prototype of this character, and the figure of Uncle Sam appeared for the first time in American literature in 1816.