Existing comment:
Marylanders Crossing the Potomac to Join the Southern Army:
Adalbert Volck's adopted state of Maryland was a border state lying between the Mason-Dixon Line to the North and the Potomac River to the South, two symbolic demarcations separating the country. While the northern border was more ideological in significance, the Potomac truly presented a physical barrier between the Union and Confederacy, as seen in this lithograph.
Transfer lithograph, 1864 |