Southern "Volunteers".

About this Image

The print may have appeared soon after the Confederate Congress passed a national conscription act on April 16, 1862, to strengthen its dwindling army of volunteers. The artist characterizes regular Confederate troops as unsavory, criminal types. Two of them (in uniform, left and center) have a well-dressed young gentleman in tow. The leader pulls on a rope around the reluctant recruit's neck, saying, "Come along you rascal! and fight for our King Cotton." The man protests, "Let me go, I tell you I'm a Union Man, and don't believe in your Southern Confederacy." He is prodded by the bayonet of a second soldier, gin flask protruding from his pocket, who urges, "Blast your Union! Them as won't go in for the war must be made to do it. Go ahead, or we'll hang you on the next tree." A second group follows. Two men in wide-brimmed hats have seized another gentleman, and urge him at bayonet point toward the left. One of the men, barefoot and ragged, with a knife and pistol in his belt, resembles a Mexican bandit. Atop a nearby hill two soldiers drag a third civilian along the ground by a rope around his neck. The print is comparable in both style and political sympathy to contemporary prints by Currier & Ives, such as "Re-Union on the Secesh-Democratic Plan" (no. 1862-10). Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Full Title
Southern "Volunteers".
Contributor(s)
Publisher
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N. Y
Language
English
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2016-11-28
Identifier
769.973 PR 0051
https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10764510
photographs-prints_15
Note
Phase One P40+
Alex Japha
400
Record Origin

Converted from Dublin Core to MODS during migration from CONTENTdm to Islandora

Ives, C. &. (n.d.). Southern "Volunteers". (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/southern
Ives, Currier &. n.d. “Southern ‘Volunteers’”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/southern.
Ives, Currier &. Southern "Volunteers". https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/southern.