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Collection

0703: Rosanna Blake Collection

Institution

Marshall University Archives and Special Collections

Date

1881

Description

Etching #15: "Tracks of the Armies," from Volck's "Confederate War Etchings" folio. From the 1863 copper plates. An image of a Confederate soldier coming home to find his home in ruins. The body of a woman in the rubble with a naked breast supposedly symbolized that the North had raped the southern women. "The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck 1828-1912," by George McCullough Anderson.

Format

Print (Visual Work)

Place

Philadelphia, PA

Subject

Subject Terms: Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America
Studio: Porter & Coates
People: Volck, Adalbert Johann (1828-1912)

Type

Still Image

Identifier

Volck#15

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