Searching for arms.
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Record Details
- Title
- Searching for arms.
- Alternate Title
- Series title: Confederate war etchings
- Date
- ca. [1882?]
- Notes
- Union troops carry out a nighttime search for weapons in a residence. The women of the house huddle together in their shifts at right while an angry older gentleman is restrainted by two Union soldiers. One soldier (with a liquor bottle peeking out of his jacket) holds up the contraband that was found: a small Confederate flag.
- Reprinted in the 1880s from original plates created by Volck in the 1860s. Set titled Confederate War Etchings and published by Porter & Coates. This is plate 5.
- Adalbert Johann Volck originally published this print under the pseudonym V. Blada.
- Names and Subjects
- Searching--1860-1870.
- Flags--1860-1870.
- Women--1860-1870.
- Soldiers--1860-1870.
- Arms & armament--1860-1870.
- Propaganda--1860-1870.
- Caricatures and cartoons--United States.
- Prints shelf.
- James S. Schoff Civil War Collection.
- Confederate States of America.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Porter & Coates,--publisher.
- United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Collection Title
- James S. Schoff Civil War Collection
- ID
- 350
- Barcode
- B6325205
- Physical Description
- 1 print : etching ; 14.8 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 29.3 x 38.0 cm
- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2016-02-20 00:22:36
Technical Details
- Collection
- William L. Clements Library Image Bank
- Image Size
- 4695 x 3645
- File Size
- 556 KB
- Record
- 350
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-350/wcl000422
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"Searching for arms.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-350/wcl000422. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. July 10, 2025.