| Title |
To a Picket Guard. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : Strong, N.Y. |
| Date |
[1861-1865?] |
| Description |
A soldier lies asleep with his arm around a barrel of lager and a rifle, or "yager," resting on him. The "picket guard" means
guard duty for the regiment, and the sender criticizes the recipient for neglecting his military duty.
|
| Notes |
Text: Asleep on your post! Mister Sentry, O fie! / What, ho! sir, wake up! rise and shoulder your yager, / Before thus laid
low I supposed you got high / On repeated libations of brain-muddling lager. / Be stirring, be stirring, the guard on their
round / Will soon -- as in duty bound -- visit the spot, sir, / And should you asleep by your comrades be found, / They'd
report you, and then-- why, of course, you'd be shot, sir!
|
|
Cf. Valentine 8.25. |
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Drinking of alcohlic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Lager -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.532.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 11.31 |
