Southern 'volunteers',Confederate Congress,CSA,American Civil War,1862

Title: Southern 'volunteers'
Related Names:
Currier & Ives.
Date Created/Published: [New York?] Published by Currier & Ives, [1862?]
Summary: 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).
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.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2008661642/
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