Battles of Cabin Creek

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Summary

Description

English: Unionists throughout the Confederate States, including Germans, resisted the imposition of conscription in 1862.

Title: Southern "volunteers"

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).

Date

circa 1862

Source

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a12086/

Author

Currier and Ives
Alternative names	Currier & Ives
Description	American printmaking firm founded by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895).
Work location	New York City
Authority file	: Q1144898 VIAF: 131253569 ISNI: 0000000121586117 ULAN: 500034474 LCCN: n80126271 Open Library: OL1763934A WorldCat

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