The words seem to jump from the faded paper: “100 Colored Men Wanted for Substitutes!” “Come in and Prevent the ‘Draft’!” “Enlist Now and Get Your $100 Bounty! Don’t Wait to Be Drafted and Lose Your Bounty!” “The Draft is Inevitable! It Can’t Be Shirked!” These are examples of phrases from Civil War recruitment [...]

Edwin Forbes’ “The Army Forge”
The beginning of the American Civil War coincided with the advent of the illustrated press, which began to see wide use in the American publishing trade at the outset of the War. The illustrated press, while still not sophisticated enough to print photographs, gave newspapers and magazines the ability to [...]