This class includes prints from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries. Many prints are in color while others are black and white.
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Vicksburg Canal (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts a scene where Confederate watch from a distance as Union troops construct a canal near Vicksburg in 1862-1863
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Free Negroes in Hayti (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching attempts to capture Volck's belief that Haitian people of African-decent were predisposed to an inherent violent nature. The scene depicts a ritual where an infant is sacrificed on a rock. Its head appears on a spear as a drum and tambourine are played. In the back ground, men and women are eating. One man appears to be eating a human arm.
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Marylanders Crossing to Potomac to Join the Southern Army (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
Maryland, Volck's adopted state, was a border state during the American Civil War. The Potomac River served as a physical barrier between the Union and Confederacy, which is depicted in the etching.
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Buying a Substitute in the North during the War (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
Volck's image is a negative comment on the Northern practice of permitting men to replace them in the draft. The image depicts well-dressed man admitting another man into a public house where substitutes are for sale. The entryway door has a sign posted that states substitutes are for sale and indicates that they are "ablebodied men." The substitutes include lower-class men, including black individuals. In the background hangs an "Honest Abe" poster.
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Writing the Emancipation Proclamation (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts Abraham Lincoln drafting the Emancipation Proclamation and appears to be in cohorts with the devil. The proclamation, which was signed on January 1, 1863, freed all slaves in Confederate states. Also depicted is a portrait of John Brown, a radical abolitionist, hanging on Lincoln's wall.
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Portrait of Grant, Lincoln, Sheridan, Sherman
H. H. Lloyd
The print features black and white portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan, and William Sherman. Each portrait is surrounded by an oval decorative border with their last names written underneath. The background behind the portraits is made up of two vignette scenes. The first (top) is a a dusty battle scene. The second appears to be a meeting between four men. It is printed on off-white paper.
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Gen'l Stuart's Return from Pennsylvania (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalrymen and horses resting. In October 1862, this cavalry division conducted raiding stops in Pennsylvania, which resulted in the cavalry confiscating horses and hats, as depicted in the image.
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Slaves Concealing Their Master from a Search Party (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching shows the inside of a slave quarter where a female slave stands at a door in front of a group of Union soldiers. The woman points to the right to lead the soldiers in the opposite of the slave master, who is hiding in the room behind a door. A gun is in his hands. A dog is also shown in the doorway. A chair lays overturned in the center of the room. A man and child sit in front of a fireplace. The man prepares food, while the child clings to him in apparent distress.
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Enlistment of Sickles' Brigade (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The image satirically depicts the Sickle's Brigade, a disreputable group of men who were (allegedly) recruited for the Excelsior brigade by Colonel Daniel Sickles. A crowd of men stand in a street holding signs or weapons.
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Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
Currier and Ives
The lithograph depicts a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the chest up.
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Gen'l Stuart's Raid to the White House (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry conducting a raid. The Confederate horsemen are shown shooting Union soldiers, removing an American flag, and harassing the owner of an alehouse. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry on a raid; much chaos as the mounted Confederates shoot Union soldiers, tear down the Union flag and harass a ""Hezekiah Skinflint"" who runs an alehouse.
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Tracks of the Armies (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The image shows a Confederate soldier returning to his destroyed home. His lifeless wife is shown naked along with a deceased dog. While not explicit, it is implied that Union soldiers carried out the destruction.
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Albert S. Johnston Crossing the Desert to Join the Southern Army (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts Albert S. Johnston crossing a desert terrain on foot. With him are horses, loafers, and a Native American guide. The image takes place after Johnston resigned from his position in the Federal Army to join the Confederacy.
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Butler's Victims of Fort St. Philip (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts high-standing citizens of New Orleans shackled and completing hard labor. These prisoners are guarded by an African-American Zouave unit, and members are shown pointing and mocking the prisoners. General Benjamin Butler, - who along with Admiral David Farragut captured Fort St. Philip in April 1862 - is shown escorting two women in the image.
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W. H. Seward. Engraved by W. Roffe, from the Statue by Randolph Rogers.
William John Roffe, Rand olph Rogers, and D. Appleton and Co.
The engraved image depicts the likeness of a William Henry Seward statue that appears in Madison Square in Manhattan, New York. The image shows Seward seated in a chair with a quill in his proper right hand and papers in his proper left hand. Beneath his chair, several books and paper rest.
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Abraham Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 3d. 1865
John Chester Buttre, L. Hollis, and B.B. Russell and Co.
The black and white engraving depicts President Abraham Lincoln walking through a crowd with his son, Tad, in Richmond, Virginia. The crowd is made up of white and black spectators who cheer as the President walks through the street.
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President and Cabinet/engraved by J.C. Buttre, New York.
John Chester Buttre and O.D. Case and Co.
The engraving features head-and-shoulder portraits of Abraham Lincoln and cabinet officers: William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Gideon Welles, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, John P. Usher, Caleb B. Smith, Simon Cameron, Hannibal Hamlin. It is printed on off-white paper and has some significant liquid staining to upper left corner and lower left and right corners.
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Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1869
Travelers Insurance Company
The print if a reproduction of small engraved portrait of Gideon Welles from the chest up. It was issued as a premium or promotional item by Travelers Insurance Company.
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Sovereigns, No. 10. "Captain, Tanner, Farmer, General, Imperator."
Thomas Nast
The chromolithograph depicts Ulysses S. Grant seated in a rocking chair. In his proper left hand, he holds a lit cigar.
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Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the City of Brotherly Love (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The etching depicts three men standing outside of a Broker's Office holding paper currency. They appear to be dressed in different military uniforms. A fourth man in gentleman's attire stands in the doorway of the busy office.
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Searching for Arms (from Confederate War Etchings)
Adalbert John Volck
The image depicts Union soldiers searching a bedroom for Confederate weapons. A woman and child stand to the side of a room as two soldiers look beneath a bed mattress. Two other soldiers stand in the background, fending off a man in nightclothes. A fifth soldier stands in the middle of the room looking at the woman and child. He is holding a Union flag in his proper left hand and pointing at it with his proper right hand.
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The Fall of Richmond VA on the Night of April 2nd 1865.
Currier and Ives
The color lithograph depicts the Fall of Richmond, when Grant overtook the city in April 1865. During the event, Jefferson Davis, his cabinet, and other Confederate defenders fled the city on the Richmond and Danville railroad. In the image, the city is shown from the river. Multiple fires blaze throughout the city as a long train of coaches, horses, and soldiers evacuate over the bridge.
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Abraham Lincoln, Color Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front
G. H. Buek, Alexand er Gardner, and M. W. Rice
The color lithograph depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln that was created from a photograph taken in 1863 by Alexander Gardner. In the portrait, Lincoln is wearing a black jacket and tie.
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Abraham Lincoln. Sixteenth President of the United States Assassinated April 14th 1865.
Currier and Ives
The black and white lithograph depicts a seated Abraham Lincoln. He wears a suit and tie and has his proper right hand is tucked inside his vest. His proper left hand holds a book at his lap.
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Index to Confederate War Etchings
Adalbert John Volck
The index lists the titles of all 29 etchings appearing in the Confederate War Etchings illustrative series.