Northern Visions of the South at War's End

Northern Visions of the South at War's End

This page will be available by January 1, 2007. Until then, please take advantage of the other pages on the NORTHERN VISIONS website. The article below is intended as a sample of the types of resources you will soon be able to find in this section."At the Eleventh Hour We Came to Forgive and Restore"

Our large engraving is no merely ideal picture--it is the ilustration of a sad story which is told in the words of our artist, whose words are copied below. It is only one of the ten thousand sad and sorrowful stories of private ruin which this accursed war has brought upon the people of the unhappy South.

In our picture, besides the main incident, are shown the advancing Union army--the rebel officer inducing the old man's sons to leave their home--the battle wherein they are killed--the black and desolate night after the battle, etc.

--from "The Penalties of Treason," The New-York Illustrated News, June 14, 1862, 91