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Title To a Recruiting Officer.
Publisher [New York] : Strong, N.Y.
Date [1861-1865?]
Description A Union officer stands at a bar and holds a large tankard of beer. The valentine criticizes military recruiters who get men drunk so that they will enlist.
Notes Text: You're not a fascinating creature, / Either in manners, form or feature, / Neither your own mug, quaint and queer, / Nor that o'erflowing mug of beer, / Would tempt me, sir, were I a gent, / To join your rowdy regiment. / Don't try with drink to catch recruits, / Our army needs good men, not brutes-- / Men who love order and the laws, / Whose hearts are in their country's cause, / Whose nerves are strong, whose heads are clear, / Whose courage is not born of beer.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Patriotism -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Recruiting and enlistment -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 11.32