Though Uncle Same has been interpreted by many artist, to the general public, his iconic image was painted best by James M. Flagg for the World War I recruitment poster that says, "I WANT YOU...".
Flagg claims he based the poster's face for Uncle Sam on his own face, adding age, and gray hair. That may be true, but whether he intended it or not, the face, the beard, the haircut... all created a dead ringer for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Flagg was born in New York, so it's unlikely he intended this to happen, and he does bear a resemblance to his Uncle Sam Character. But accident or not, recruitment was disproportionately higher in the South during the WWI, when the poster was first used. To many in the South, the image was not an accident.
http://tytempletonart.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/top-seven-reasons-uncle-sam-sucks-the-comic-character-not-the-country/
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