Description

This etching is a political cartoon by Adalbert Volck, a Southern sympathizer living in Baltimore, Maryland, during the United States Civil War. The cartoon, one of the Confederate War Etchings series, depicts a Confederate soldier returning to his home to find it destroyed and his wife and dog dead amidst the rubble. A cradle is overturned and his child is gone. A vulture, a symbol of death, perches near the chimney. The grief-stricken man clasps his hand to his forehead. The leaf of an open book which lies on the floor says “By their deeds you shall know them.” The number 15 appears above the upper left corner of the image. Original etching one of thirty published in Volck's "Confederate War Etchings." For more information about the artist, a dentist and southern sympathizer living in Baltimore, and his work, copy and paste the following URL: http://www.archive.org/details/sketchesfromcivi00v Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum