The voluntary manner in which some of the Southern volunteers enlist / Thos. Worth, del. – Antique Print
![The voluntary manner in which some of the Southern volunteers enlist / Thos. Worth, del., [New York : Currier & Ives, 1861] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8db7831886c6-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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A window into the past: The voluntary manner in which some of the Southern volunteers enlist / Thos. Worth, del., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The voluntary manner in which some of the Southern volunteers enlist / Thos. Worth, del.
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The title's irony does most of the work here: "The voluntary manner in which some of the Southern volunteers enlist" suggests that the men shown were not signing up of their own free will. Thomas Worth drew this lithograph for Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold large numbers of political cartoons to a public hungry for commentary on the secession crisis. Published in 1861, in the first year of the Civil War, it reflects the Northern press's habit of mocking Confederate recruiting as coerced or half-hearted. The print is a useful example of how wartime satire framed the Southern cause as something ordinary men were pushed into rather than chose.
| Created / published | [New York : Currier & Ives, 1861] |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 26 x 36 cm. |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7003 Weitenkampf, p. 136 Murrell, p. 214 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-34. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,057 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111259 |
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