(WAR OF 1812) The Eagle and Harp; a Collection of Patriotic

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(WAR OF 1812.) The Eagle and Harp; a Collection of Patriotic and Humourous Songs and Odes. 120, 125-147 pages (but complete). 8vo, original boards, minor wear and soiling; minor foxing; several later owner's inscriptions on front endpapers and title page dated 1863. Baltimore, MD: J. & T. Vance and J. Cole, 1812

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A volume of patriotic songs (words only, no music) put out in reaction to the War of 1812, with titles such as "John Bull Will Get the Gripes," "An Ode to the Volunteers of 1812," "Let Foreigners Boast," and more. On 24 November 1863, this volume was owned by George Eitemiller (1849-circa 1925) of McConnellsburg, PA; he was then attending telegraph school in nearby Chambersburg. Four months after the Confederates swept through his region and were defeated at Gettysburg, and just 5 days after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, young Eitemiller was overcome by patriotism and inscribed the volume 4 times in pencil, writing on the title page "Hurrah for Liberty & Union." His son George Floyd Eitemiller would later die on the Titanic in 1912. Not in Wegelin; Sabin 21615 (giving the title as "Eagle and Hawk"); Shaw & Shoemaker 25311. None known at auction since a Swann sale, 24 July 1980, lot 124.