Details
Title Home Guard.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [1861-1865?]
Description A man wears a bonnet and crinoline over his clothing while he does laundry. The valentine satirizes men who did not fight in the Civil War and characterizes them as cowardly and effeminate.
Notes Text: You enlist! not to fight at your dear country's call. / You keep from the field where the brave fight & fall; / A sneak and a coward, and no force or persuasion, / Could make you leave home, but the fact of invasion.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Masculinity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Laundry -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courage -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 5.2