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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Stonewall Jackson memorial songsheet, with a souvenir from his grave. 2 items as described below. Various places, 1874 and undated
"Stonewall." Letterpress songsheet with black border, 9 1/4 x 6 inches; folds, moderate wear including loss at one corner and 1-inch tear extending within border. The presenter named here was Pinkey M.E. Biggs (born 1824), a Baltimore seamstress. She had them printed for distribution at a Confederate memorial service at Loudon Park Cemetery near Baltimore, as reported in the Baltimore Sun of 11 June 1874. The poem appeared in print as early as 1867 in "Southern Poems of the War" edited by Emily Mason, so Biggs was apparently not the author. We trace no other examples of this printing. Baltimore, MD, circa 1874.
Rev. John J. Lafferty. "A Souvenir from the Grave of Lt. Gen. T.J. 'Stonewall' Jackson, C.S.A." Letterpress card, 6 x 3 1/2 inches, with 3/4 x 2 1/2-inch piece of wood affixed; 1-inch repaired tear. Lafferty, who died in 1909, explains that a tree planted on the grave in 1864 was removed in 1884, and "the roots had gone directly to the coffin and embraced by curious curves and bendings the body of the dead Champion of the South." The present fragment is said to be "made from wood nourished by the mighty dead, and holding in its fibers the dust of the matchless hero." The card was printed "with compliments of James Z. McChesney, Charlestown, WV," a commander in the United Confederate Veterans. Charleston, WV, circa 1900-1910.
WITH--a foxed 1865 engraving, "Rebel Generals," 9 x 6 inches, removed from an unknown book.
