Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Group of 4 pieces of patriotic Maryland sheet music--Union and Confederate. Each 5 pages, about 13 x 10, variously disbound or rebound; minor to moderate wear. Various places, 1861-1864
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"C.E." "Maryland! My Maryland . . . Written by a Baltimorean in Louisiana." 5 pages, disbound; edges worn, ink note on title page. A secessionist anthem for a state very much on the fence: "Dear Mother! burst the tyrant's chain / Maryland! My Maryland! Virginia should not call in vain! . . . Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!" Baltimore: Miller & Beacham, 1861.

Sep Winner. "Maryland my Maryland, Union Words." 5 pages, disbound, dampstaining to inner margin. A response to the song above: "Thy sons shall battle with the just / And soon repel the traitor's thrust . . . Virginia feels the tyrant's chain / Her children lie around her slain." Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1862.

George Lansing Taylor and "Miss Fortune." "Maryland's Free." 5 pages, bound with backstrip of marbled paper. One verse reads "Glorified Maryland! Sanctified! Sealed with the blood of the free / Now in thy streets no more / Purified Baltimore / New England's blood shall pour! Baltimore's free!" New York: Horace Waters, 1864.

James R. Randall. "We Sleep, But We Are Not Dead: A Patriotic Song." 5 pages, nearly disbound. Baltimore: George Willig, 1862.

WITH--one earlier song, Stewart Macaulay's "Maryland My Home!," Philadelphia: Beek & Lawton, 1853.