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Sale 2687 - Lot 95

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.) Group of Civil War sheet music. 14 pieces, each about 13 x 10 inches, unbound or disbound, most with illustrated covers, plus 5 others with illustrated covers only; generally moderate wear, toning or dampstaining to various degrees. Various places, 1861-1865
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Hays. "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." 6 pages including lithographed cover. Stated 20th edition. Louisville, KY: D.P. Faulds, 1863.

Helmsmuller. "Drums & Trumpets, or, A Parade in Broadway of the 7th, 22d, and 71st Regiments of N. Y. S. Militia." 7 pages including chromolithographed cover; toned. Later edition of 1857 composition. New York: Firth, Pond & Co., [1862].

Justice. "Jefferson D." 5 pages; disbound. New York: S.T, Gordon, 1861.

Eaton. "Orleans Cadets Quick Step." 5 pages including lithographed cover; rebacked in cloth, dampstaining and wear. Parrish & Willingham, Confederate Imprints 7332. New Orleans, LA: A.E. Blackmar, 1861.

Winner. "Col. Ellsworth's Funeral March." Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, [1861]. [2], 4 pages including hand-colored lithograph cover; dampstaining.

Glover. "Maj. Anderson's Quick Step." 6 pages including engraved cover. Boston: Oliver Ditson, [1861?]

Mack. "Major General Sherman's Grand Triumphal March." 6 pages including lithographed cover, plus final ad leaf; early tape repairs, rebacked with paper. Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, [1865].

[Warren.] "General Burnside's Grand Triumphal March." 9 pages including chromolithographed cover. Perhaps not quite as triumphal as Grant's march above. Boston: Henry Tolman, 1862.

Sterett and Frank. "Reply to the Bonnie Blue Flag." [2] 4 pages including collective title printed in red and blue. New York: S.T. Gordon, 1863.

Parkhurst. "The Soldier's Dying Farewell." 5 pages. [New York]: Horace Waters, 1864.

Clark. "Let Me Die with my Face to the Foe." 7 pages. New York" Horace Waters, 1864.

Kidder & Tucker. "We Never Can Forget It; or The Memories of the Andersonville Prison Pens." [4] pages. [New York, 1865].

Crosby & Emmett. "Dixie for the Union." [5] pages including cover in red and blue. New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1861.

Story and Keller. "War Song, Written and Dedicated to the Massachusetts Regiments." 7 pages including cover in red and blue. New York: G.A. Whitehorne, 1861.


With illustrated covers only:
Raft. "General Grant's Grand March." Lithograph cover only. New York: H. Waters, 1864.

Goldbeck. "Volunteer Polka." Engraved cover only. New York: Horace Waters, 1863.

Helmsmuller. "Parade March of the 22d Regt. N.Y.S.M. Union Grays." Chromolithograph cover only. New York: Firth, Son & Co., 1862.

Berge. "Bensel Quick Step." Lithograph cover only. New York: William A. Pond & Co., 1861.

Weingarten. "Monitor Polka." Engraved cover only. New York: H.B. Dodsworth, 1863.



With--37 pieces of militia and military sheet music, most of them 1834-1860 and 5 of them 1874-1881, most with illustrated covers (list upon request), plus 8 covers only, including these two Civil War-related titles:

Whittier and Sloman. "Barbara Frietchie, Descriptive Song." 7 pages including lithographed cover; rebacked with cloth obscuring part of illustration. Whittier's famous poem about an apocryphal Civil War incident, set to music. New York: William A. Pond & Co., 1879.

Lemon. "A Little More Grape Captain Bragg." [7] pages including lithograph cover. Commemorates a famous Mexican War incident involving a future Confederate general. Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1847.

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