(CIVIL WAR MARYLAND) Pair of songs on the 6th Massachusetts

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(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Pair of songs on the 6th Massachusetts minutemen and the Baltimore Riot. 2 items, one manuscript and one songsheet; minor wear. Various places, [1861]

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Joseph W. Denney. "The Sixth Union Song of Co. G, Dedicated to the Sixth Reg. by Lieut. Denney." One manuscript page, 8 x 5 inches, plus integral blank. "From city and town, from head and heart / The Bay State boys were ready to start / And march & march, march away to Dixie." With typed transcript. No place, circa 1861.

C.S.S. "The Slain at Baltimore." Printed song sheet, 9 1/2 x 6 inches; unevenly toned. "There's sorrow and there's weeping by mountain, vale, and shore / For Freedom's new slain martyrs--the Dead at Baltimore." Philadelphia: A.W. Auner, [1861].

Provenance: collection of Arthur G. "Gil" Barrett.