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 | | | Title: | "He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me." - Ellsworth | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861 -- Portraits | | Description: | Portrait of Colonel Ellsworth. A sword and an olive branch appear below him. Four rifles and four Union flags appear behind him. A star appears above him. The words "Entered according to Act of Congress by Bloom & Smith, in 1861, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York" appear to the left of the image. The words "Wells, Cor. Park Row and Beekman at., New York." appear below the image. Ellsworth was killed after taking down a Confederate flag during the occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. Ellsworth was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. | |
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 | | | Title: | "He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me." - Ellsworth | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861 -- Portraits | | Description: | Portrait of Colonel Ellsworth. Two swords appear below him. Four rifles and four Union flags appear behind him. The word "Union" appears above him. Ellsworth was killed after taking down a Confederate flag during the occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. Ellsworth was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. | |
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 | | | Title: | His mark | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 | | Description: | A flag bears the image of Jefferson Davis (labled J.D.) being kicked by another leg. It is assumed that the other leg is of Abraham Lincoln (A.L.). | |
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 | | | Title: | Holy Jolly Roger! | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Pictorial works | | Description: | Depiction of a Jolly Roger (piracy) flag with the words "J. D. His Marque" added to it. The words "A. L. His Marks" appears to refer to the holes shot into the Jolly Roger flag and flag pole. | |
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 | | | Title: | Hon. Jefferson Davis, champion of the South | | Subject: | Cannon balls -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Portraits | | Description: | Portrait of Jefferson Davis. The portrait is surrounded by cannnon, flags and munitions. The words "Copyright Secured" appear above the image. | |
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 | | | Title: | How Virginia was voted out of the Union | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Description: | Depiction of a rigged polling station, implying that a No vote was impossible because of armed individuals at the polling stations. Most likely, the legitimacy of Virginia's secession is being questioned. | |
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 | | | Title: | "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Dix, John A. (John Adams), 1798-1879 | | Description: | Union flag with liberty cap on the top of the flag pole. The words "If any one attempts to haul down the American Flag, shoot him on the spot." appears below the image of the Union flag and the liberty cap. | |
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 | | | Title: | "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Dix, John A. (John Adams), 1798-1879 | | Description: | Midshipman, with left foot resting on top of an anchor, is holding up a Union flag in his left hand and his holding a cutlass with his right hand. | |
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 | | | Title: | The impending crisis | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Description: | Depiction of two ships. The Union ship is depicted as a mighy warship with two large Union flags that appears on the horizon. The Confederate ship is depicted as a cracked tub with three individuals and a Confederate flag in it. The first person is an officer looking through a spyglass. The second is a seaman getting drunk from a bottle. The third person is throwing up over the back of the boat. The image is implying that the Confederate navy has no chance against the Union navy. | |
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 | | | Title: | The innocent cause of the war. | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Description: | African-American man seated with a hoe across his legs. | |
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 | | | Title: | "I say old fellow, just hold on to this 'ere flag or you are lost." | | Subject: | Bald eagle -- Pictorial works | | Description: | A man in formal Northern attire his holding out the Union flag to a man who has fallen off of a dock. The man in the water on his back is in formal Southern attire, including a straw hat marked "South". A confederate flag is floating in the water. The man in the water is being menaced by an alligator called "Secession". A bald eagle is watching the incident from the dock. The image is implying that the South is doomed unless it rejoins the Union. | |
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 | | | Title: | Is coming: southern menagerie | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 | | Description: | Three circus cages, flying the Confederate flag, are heading north on a road going to Boston. They are passing a road marker. The first circus cage contains "The Striped Davis". The second cage contains "The Old Bear-Re-Gard". The lettering on the third cage is illegible. The phrase "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1861, by J.E. Hayes in the Clerk's Office in the District Court in the District of Massachusetts" appears at the bottom of the image. | |
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 | | | Title: | I'se contraband | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Description: | Freed male slave in a straw hat. The man is superimposed on a black triangle containing the abbreviations of the states of the Confederacy. The black triangle is itself superimposed on an upside-down trangle containing horizontal lines. The image is a reference to General Benjamin Butler's "contraband" policy, by which escaping slaves reaching Union lines would not be returned to slavery. Butler, a trained attorney, used Virginia's secession to argue that under international law that escaped slaves were "contraband of war" and he was not required to return them to their former owners. | |
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 | | | Title: | I wonder if the coast is clear? | | Subject: | Cotton bales -- Pictorial works | | Description: | Cats in military gear are protecting bales of cotton in a blockaded harbor. The Union flag is flying from behind the bales of cotton. The cats are killing the rats, some of which are wearing straw hats. The rats are labeled "prizes". | |
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 | | | Title: | "I wouldn't pull down dat flag, massa George" | | Subject: | Envelopes (Stationary) -- History -- United States -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | | Person: | Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Pictorial works | | Description: | African-American man attempting to stop George Washington's son [Artist apparently did not realize that George Washington had no children of his own. He had two stepchildren, but the stepson was not named George either.] from removing the American flag from a flagpole. The African-American man is saying "I wouldn't pull down dat flag, Massa George; you will nebber forgib yerself as long as you lib, if you do. Dem stars were intended to be 'fixed,' and not moved round. I recollect the time when it had only thirteen, and hab watched it grow jus like my own chile. Your fader honored and respected it, and would hab died protecting it: derefore, Massa, if you hab any respeck for de memory ob your fader, who is dead an' gone, run up dat flag agin, give tree cheers for de Union, and let's keep up next Fourth of July in de old fashioned way.". The words "Entered according to act of Congress, by John G. Wells, in 1861, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York." appear below the image. | |
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