Cave life in Vicksburg during the siege.

Notes:

A Southern mother is praying in a makeshift cave home due to the bombardment of Vicksburg during the Civil War. A child's doll lays on the floor, and a crib is partially visible behind a curtain. Reprinted in the 1880s from original plates created by Volck in the 1860s. Set titled Confederate War Etchings and published by Porter & Coates. This is plate 28. Adalbert Johann Volck originally published this print under the pseudonym V. Blada.

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Subject Topic:

Women--United States--Mississippi--1860-1870.; Cave dwellings--1860-1870.; Economic & social conditions--1860-1870.; Bombardment--United States--Mississippi--1860-1870.; Religion--1860-1870.; Propaganda--1860-1870.; Caricatures and cartoons--United States.; Prints shelf.; James S. Schoff Civil War Collection.; Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863.; Confederate States of America.; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.; Porter & Coates,--publisher.; United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

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