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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."

Lyrics depict singer's happy memories of home at a younger age. Cover image depicts children picking flowers in front of two homes and a portrait of the lyricist/publisher in the lower left corner.

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.

"Dedicated to our Illinois State Park, Starved Rock, near Ottawa, Ill." Lyrics depict singer's life in Illinois and pride in the state. Cover image includes a photograph of Starved Rock with a man and woman in a canoe on the Illinois River below.…

A patriotic song in praise of the Union, its people, and its armies.

Lyrics depict singer traveling throughout the world and expressing a desire to always return home to Illinois. Cover image depicts the state of Illinois with a heart in the middle surrounded by drawings of Starved Rock, Lincoln's Tomb, Blackhawk…

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

Major Murray McConnel of Morgan County poses for a portrait. McConnel served in the Black Hawk War before beginning a legal career. McConnel served as an Auditor of the Treasury under President Franklin Pierce and President James Buchanan and was…

The Benson Footbridge passes in front of the 630 foot high Multnomah Falls near the Columbia River Highway, Multnomah County, Oregon.

An architect's drawing illustrates the Palatine Commercial Corporation Building. At bottom: "J. C. Zarnowiecki, J. A. Slupkowski, Associate Architects."

A man stands on a mule-drawn shuttle car full of rocks and earth.

Group of boys standing next to or sitting on mules

A lady, possibly connected to the Edwina Booth Grossman family, writes to a much-loved man who seems to be in their New York house. On a "Mighty cold, gorgeous day" she suggests Harrison put a window in the east side of shed so he can paint there.…

A mudsill is a sill or timber placed on or buried under the ground to support a structure. Southerners sometimes referred to Northerners as "mudsills," in derision of what they saw as the lowly social status of most Northern men. During the Civil…