Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Song: Virginia Races from Bull's Run. Illustrated letterpress broadside, 12 x 6 inches; folds, adhesive stain on verso. Np, circa 1861

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A song celebrating the Confederate victory at Bull Run: "Soldiers flying, niggers crying / See them push to Washington. . . . Lee's a coming! Hark, the drumming! / Fly you hireling Hessian knaves / He will scourge you, he will purge you / Run you dirty Lincoln slaves." Rudolph, Confederate Broadside Verse 304; not in OCLC and not found at auction.