1-149-661 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Bereaved Mother', 1872. This is possibly inspired by the American Civil War (1861-1865) between the United States of America (the Union) and the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Portraits of soldiers who died in the war are included in the same book from which this image is taken. Engraving from A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).