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Illustrated four verse song and chorus praising the New York Seventh Infantry Regiment sung to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner." Officially the New York 7th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the regiment served in the eastern theatre of the Civil…

Illustrated five verse song and chorus on a slave's distress upon the sale of his sweetheart to another master.

Illustrated two verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Annie of the Vale." A lonely soldier on picket duty longs for his sweatheart.

Illiustrated two verse song and chorus on the death of a young man's sweetheart.

Illustrated four verse song and chorus lamenting the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Illustrated four verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Under the Willow she's sleeping." The song laments the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Four verse song sung to the tune of "The Girl I Left Behind Me." A Union soldier longs to return home to his family.

Fourteen verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Shady." The song ridicules the policies of President Andrew Johnson. Other copies of the song are alternatively entitled "Johnson On The Brain."

Illustrated three verse song sung to the tune of "My Minstrel Boy." The song describes a Union soldier's death at the Battle of Antietam.

Usually enitiled "Maryland, My Maryland," this illustrated nine stanza poem was set to music and became one of the most popular pro-Confederate songs of the Civil War. "Maryland, My Maryland, became the state song of Maryland in 1938.

Illustrated sheet containing two songs. The first, "My Maryland," is satirically attributed to "Stone-Wall Jackson" and decrys and ridicules the Rebel general's march into Maryland. The song is a satire of the pro-Confederate anthem, "Maryland, My…

Illustrated three verse song and chorus about a woman whose sweetheart is fighting for the Union.

Illustrated four verse song and chorus about a woman's hope that her shoemaker sweetheart, who became a sailor, will soon become a sea capatian.

Illustrated two verse song and chorus about nostalgia for boyhood home and life.

Illustrated two verse song and chorus based on a French revolutionary song of 1848. Verses are in French and English.

Illustarted four verse song about the joys and challenges of life at sea.

Illustrated three verse song about a mother hoping for her son's safe return from war but willing to accept his death as a sacrifice for the Union.

Illustrated three verse song and chorus. A wounded soldier sings of how his mother would comfort him, if she were with him.

Illustrated four verse song and chorus sung to the tune of the "Bonnie Blue Flag." The words depict a dying soldier thinking of his mother.The original "Bonnie Blue Flag" was one of the most popular Confederate songs of the Civil War.

Illustrated three verse song and chorus about a young soldier wounded in the Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862) who relates a dream he had of his mother comforting him.

Illustrated three verse song about a son asking his mother if his father will ever return from the war, only to learn that his father died in battle.

Although the illustration shows a soldier leaving a battlefield, this three verse song about the return of a prodigal son to his mother does not mention war or soldiering.

Seven verse song and chorus sung to the tune of" Yankee Doodle Dandy." The Battle of Hampton Roads (March 8-9, 1862) between the USS Monitor and CSS Merrimac (aka CSS Virginia) was the first battle fought between ironclad warships.

"From the Democratic Presidential Campaign Songster," five verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Lannigan's Ball." Democratic campaign song ridiculing Abraham Lincoln and "Black Republicans."

Two verse song with ornamental border.