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Substitute office. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Substitute office. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Satire on the hiring of substitutes to serve in the Union army for well-to-do Northerners. The "ablebodied" substitutes are shown as drunks and gamblers.
Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck.
Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 40.

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01/01/1864
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Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
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Library of Congress
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