(CIVIL WAR MUSIC) Bound volume of sheet music including sev

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(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.) Bound volume of sheet music, including several military or patriotic pieces. 48 printed pieces, plus 4 leaves of manuscript music. Folio, original 1/2 calf, worn, backstrip coming detached; a few pieces slightly cropped, intermittent foxing and minor wear; original owner's name plate on front cover. Vp, 1853-61 and undated

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Highlights include "Our Country's Flag" by Gumpert with colored cover, dedicated to Lincoln "General McClellan's Grand March" by Mack "March . . . Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps by a Young Lady of Charleston, S.C." "Octoroon Gallop" by de Bubna "Camp Song: Why, Soldiers, Why Should we be Melancholy, Boys?", dedicated to McClellan "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" by Hobbs "The Banner of the Sea," by Williamson and Hewitt, with colored cover, 1861 "Monody on the Death of Ellsworth," by Remak and Beckel, dedicated to Mrs. Lincoln. The original owner was Jane Cameron Elizabeth Redsecker (1840-1920) of Lancaster County, PA, who would soon marry Samuel Slaymaker.