Soldier facing left in center – holding unfurling American flag in proper left hand, sword in proper right hand. Standing atop a star-studded flag drapped on gun of canon. Two lines of verse follow title
“Flagmania,” termed by a newspaper, developed after the fall of Fort Sumter in April, 1861. The stars and stripes became a symbol of the Union during the Civil War and Currier & Ives often used the flag in the firm’s patriotic prints. In this image a young Union recruit clutches the flag in his right hand and holds up a sword with the other. Below the image is the following verse: O’er Sumters wall our flag again we’ll wave, And give to traiters all a bloody grave. Our Union and our laws maintain we must; And treason’s banner trample in the dust.
