The Elliot Cross and James AThe Elliot Cross and James A. Cross Civil War Collection documents the Southern
perspective of the American Civil War. As FAU’s largest collection dedicated
solely to the Civil War, the Cross collection contains personal correspondence from Jefferson Davis,
Alexander Stephens, Robert E. Lee and many other Confederate military and
government leaders. Also included are Confederate government documents and
general orders pertaining to the war as well as photographs and illustrations
from the period. This digital collection contains images of satirical etchings done by Adalbert John Volck
(1828-1912) which he published in Sketches from the Civil War in North America,
1861,'62, '63 by V. Blada (Volck's pseudonym).
