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Enlistment of Sickle's Brigade, N. Y.
- Creator:
- Adalbert Johann Volck
- Location:
- Maryland, Baltimore
- Origin Date:
- 1861-1863
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 9 1/16 in x 12 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.2076
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
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 the scene at Five Points. A missionary with Bible in hand is preaching while someone above him is removing his wig. At the opposite side of the cartoon a woman is giving pipes to the crowd. Between the two sides of the street are the recruits, intermingled with whom is the colonel, the lieutenants, a first sergeant and a corporal. One of the lieutenants has a sign reading, "The Capital in Danger, Sickles' Brigade to the Rescue." The number 6 appears above the top left corner of the image. Original etching one of thirty published in Volck's "Confederate War Etchings." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
