. Sketches from the Civil War in North America : 1861, '62, '63 . itories, and whether he thought thatsolemn constitutional right would be exercised after the war!It is said to the credit of Breckenridge that he was able to laughat the humor of this immense impertinence. In the midst of thewar Jefferson Davis was through inadvertence introduced at apublic meeting in Richmond as the President of the United States,and he said he asserted the far higher honor of the presidency ofthe Confederate states. He is gone, and the United States onlygained in universal prestige by the trial of the strength
. Sketches from the Civil War in North America : 1861, '62, '63 . itories, and whether he thought thatsolemn constitutional right would be exercised after the war!It is said to the credit of Breckenridge that he was able to laughat the humor of this immense impertinence. In the midst of thewar Jefferson Davis was through inadvertence introduced at apublic meeting in Richmond as the President of the United States,and he said he asserted the far higher honor of the presidency ofthe Confederate states. He is gone, and the United States onlygained in universal prestige by the trial of the strength of the gen-eral government and the tenacity of the national vitality. He isno more, and his daughter—the Daughter of the Confederacy—is soon to become the wife of a young man in the North whoseblood is of the oldest anti-slavery stock: and the chivalry of theNorth, no less than that of the South will be warm-hearted towardher and show by acts of kindness unaffected and the involuntarypoliteness of respectful affection and the high and tender considera- 236. CO < OU z u < CO CONFEDERATE WAR ETCHINGS—Volck 19 tion that is the tribute of manliness to womanhood, the hope thather home may be happy in the Union of lakes and of lands, ofhearts and of hands, the Union still of the fathers and the mothers,now and evermore. The series of etchings which is presented in this issue of theCosmopolitan comprises one of the most interesting reminiscencesof the great war of the rebellion. They are the work of Dr. A. of Baltimore who etched them during the early years of thecivil war. Dr. Volck was an agent of the Confederate govern-ment and to get his sketches he repeatedly ran the blockade. Thedaring artist finally was arrested by the Government and confinedin Fort McHenry. The sketches were etched and a few copiesprinted intended for private distribution, after which the originalcopper plates were shipped to England for safety and left with Dela Rue & Company of London. O
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