Having become a Corporal - advancement is easy, Alabama 1862

Drawing shows an officer sitting, smoking a pipe.
Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake.
German inscription on sheet, lower right reads: Und wer's erst zum Corporal gebracht Der steht auf der Stufe zurhöchst[en] Ma[cht] (source: M. Peake).
Code on mat (source unverified): I-8.
"N.22" upper left corner of sheet.
Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress.
Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188).
Blood shed in this war: Civil War illustrations by Captain Adolph Metzner, 32nd Indiana / Michael A. Peake. Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010, p. 53.