Southern volunteers"" – Antique Print
![Southern volunteers"", [New York?] Published by Currier & Ives, [1862?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/246c952382b7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Southern volunteers"" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Southern volunteers""
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Its title, "Southern volunteers," is set in quotation marks, and that irony drives this 1862 political cartoon from Currier & Ives. The Confederacy began conscripting men into its army in April 1862, so the phrase mocks the claim that Southern soldiers had enlisted freely when compulsion was in fact compelling service. Currier & Ives sold inexpensive lithographs to a broad public, and prints like this one used caricature to argue that the Confederate war effort depended on coercion. The draft listed among its subjects ties the print to the debates over forced service that shaped wartime politics on both sides.
| Created / published | [New York?] Published by Currier & Ives, [1862?] |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 23.8 x 36.9 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870.Political cartoons 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Published by Currier & Ives, New York? 1862? Title appears as it is written on the item. Gale, no. 6033. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-7. |
| Subjects | Confederate States of America.--Army--1860-1870. Draft--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 984 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111434 |
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