Details
Title A Candidate for Military Promotion.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [1861-1865?]
Description The valentine depicts two soldiers in Union uniforms, one holding a rifle with a bayonet with which he prods the other over a fence.
Notes Text: I was tired of the ranks, and promoted I'd be, / I tho't the shoulder straps would look finely on me, / But when I applied, it was only to find, / The promotion before just hurt me behind.
Cf. 10.3.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.71.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 2.21