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Sale 2708 - Lot 57

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Earnest Halphin. Coming at Last! Oh Yes Sir, the Rebels are Coming at Last! 5 pages, 14 x 10¾ inches, unbound, with plate number 3383; minor wear and soiling; inscribed in pencil "Frank M. Etting, from the author, 1863" on title page. Baltimore: Miller & Beacham, 1862
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One of a very few pro-Confederate songs published in the Union states. The words announce the imminent arrival of Confederate forces in the North, perhaps in reaction to J.E.B. Stuart's October 1862 Raid on Chambersburg: "Circling Mac's army, three days at work / Under that smile of theirs, famine may lurk / Out with the best you have, fill the bowl fast / Jeff's ragged riders are coming at last"--with "Stuart at the head of them." Halphin was better known for another Confederate anthem, "God Save the South."

This copy is inscribed, oddly enough, to Frank Marx Etting, a Jewish-American attorney and historian from Philadelphia who was then serving as a paymaster in the Union Army. One in OCLC (Johns Hopkins), and none traced at auction.

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