File:Resistance to Confederate conscription.jpg

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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
date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3a12086.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Currier and Ives   wikidata:Q1144898
 
Currier and Ives
Alternative names
Currier & Ives
Description American
 printmaking firm founded by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895).
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New York City
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creator QS:P170,Q1144898

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