Genre print showing Union women volunteers, in plain clothes, aiding soldiers within a tent. In the central foreground, a seated volunteer comforts a soldier, lying in a cot, his head bandaged, and a pen and paper resting on his blanket. The aid worker pats him with one hand and holds a book in the other. Across from the soldier's knapsack, rifle, and tin cup, a dog watches nearby, his head resting on the soldiers blanketed legs. In the right, another young woman volunteer stands with a basket over her arm. In the left, an older volunteer offers a bowl of food to another soldier, still in uniform, and also lying on a cot under a window flap. Also shows crates of supplies of the "Ladies Aid Mission" piled and open. In the left background, male aid workers assisting soldiers on the grounds are visible through the tent opening., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Artist's signature lower left., To the patriotic and benevolent ladies of the Union who by their devoted services aided their country in its trying hour and comforted its brave defenders this print is respectfully dedicated., Passage from Sir Walter Scott's "Marimon Canto vi. Stanza 30" printed below the image: Oh woman in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please, and variable as the shade. By the light quivering aspen made, when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Walter, Adam B., 1820-1875, engraver
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Hospitals - W [P.2009.17.7]
View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date
1889
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]
