| Title |
A Zouave. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[1861-1865?] |
| Description |
A Union Zouave soldier holds his rifle on his shoulder. Chicken heads peak out from his pants, suggesting that "hens" means
"women" in the text.
|
| Notes |
Text: My Zouave is a pretty bird, / He wears a bushy tail; / He never missed secessia's hens, / When one upon their trail.
/ But now he's gone to / A long way from the snore [i.e., shore], / Where he can never hook the hens, / He gaily hooked before.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.645.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 13.44 |
