Recruiting for the war--scene at the recruiting tents in the park, New York – Historic Print
(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: Recruiting for the war--scene at the recruiting tents in the park, New York, preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Recruiting for the war--scene at the recruiting tents in the park, New York
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Set up in a New York park, the recruiting tents in this wood engraving show the army's effort to fill its ranks in the spring of 1864. The scene ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on March 19, 1864, at a time when the Union was short of men after years of heavy losses. In early 1864 President Lincoln called for 500,000 more volunteers, and cities competed to meet their quotas with bounties and public enlistment drives. Frank Leslie's, a popular weekly, often used such engravings to show readers the everyday machinery of the war on the home front.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864, March 19, p. 404. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Recruiting & enlistment. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 956 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164630 |
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