(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) Fifty Cents a Day To be sung to Joe Bo

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Fifty Cents a Day. To be sung to "Joe Bowers." Songsheet, printed in double column with single black rule border, 8-1/2x5-1/2 inches, paper toned; creases where folded, matted. Np, circa 1863

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An unusual Civil War song sheet, addressing the issue of equal pay for black soldiers. "I am a humble soldier/ Far from my friends and home/ 'Mid scenes of toil and hardships/ I constantly must roam/ With cruel officers over me/ and them I must obey/ And do just what they tell me--For Fifty Cents a Day. I enlisted as a patriot/a freeman and a Man/ To do a soldier's duty/ As best a soldier can." No copies found by OCLC.