Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Group of pro-Confederate Maryland songsheets. 3 items, various sizes. Various places, 1861-1862 and undated
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[Nicholas G. Ridgely.] "Down Trodden Maryland." Stated "third edition revised." Illustrated broadside, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, printed in crimson (some other copies printed in gilt); horizontal fold, minor wear and dampstaining. "She's lost her bravest and her best . . . in a dungeon rest, too proud to bend the knee. . . . And when the South is free once more / 'Twill be her proudest boast / That forth the first her men did pour / To curb the invading host." Baltimore, MD: privately printed, 4 March 1862.

"The Exiled Soldier's Adieu to Maryland." Illustrated broadside, 7 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches; 1/2-inch repair in right margin. "My sword shall not ingloriously rust! / Exiled, I swear to die, or set thee free." "Camp near Manassas," 5 July 1861.

"Maryland, a Fragment." Broadside, 9 x 4 3/4 inches, on yellow paper; minor wear. "Gladly Southern Sisters greet her . . . / To the battle front she moveth / Striking down each vile oppressor / And the tyrants who distress her. . . . Aye! Proudly with the Confed'rate band / My Maryland shalt take thy stand." No place, undated.