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Lyrics depict grief over the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth. Cover image depicts portrait of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth with soldiers standing on either side, one waving a flag while standing above a grave. "Tribute to Ellsworth"

Instrumental music. "To the Republican Presidential Candidate Hon. A. Lincoln."

Campaign song and chorus for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

Instrumental music. "Composed & most respectfully dedicated to Col. J. C. Fremont" Cover depicts image of Fremont, who was the first Republican nominee for president. He was defeated by James Buchanan in the presidential election of 1856.

Instrumental music. Cover depicts photograph of Lincoln Tomb.

Song honoring Abraham Lincoln's call for more Union soldiers. The cover, which depicts Union cavalry, is entitled "Our National War Songs" and contains an index of American martial music.

"To the Union, Mourn ye afflicted People-Mourn." "Sixteenth president of the United States, Born Feb. 12th 1808. Died by the hand of an assassin April 15th 1865."

Cover shows picture of Colonel Edward D.Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln and the only sitting U.S. senator to be killed during the Civil War. Baker was killed on October 21, 1861, at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in Virginia.

Satirical song about Union policies towards slaves.

Instrumental music "Composed and dedicated to fleet surgeon Ninian Pinkney and to the officers and gentlemen of the U. S. N. Hospital Red Rover"

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…

Requiem for Abraham Lincoln

Subtitle "Answer to Young Eph's Lament." A minstrel song celebrating emancipation and Union victory over the South. Edwin Kelly and Francis Leon led one of the most successful and popular minstrel troupes in the United States during the 1860s and…

Subtitle and dedication on cover: "Marcia Funerale, In memory of our late President Abraham Lincoln, composed and respectufully dedicated to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln."

A "National Funeral March," composed in mourning of the loss of President James A. Garfield, who was shot on July 2, 1881, and died on September 19, 1881. He was the second president to be assassinated. The cover depicts Columbia mourning the fallen…

Lyrics depict sadness for the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Cover information: "Plantation Song and Chorus, Sung with great success by C. Petten Gill, at the concerts of the Buckley Serenaders,." Song in praise of fighting for the Union and Abraham Lincoln. Arranged by Fred Buckley

Song depicts money arriving to fund United States Army during Civil War. "Dan Bryant's Popular Comic Song" "As sung by him with immense success at Bryant's Minstrels also by Mrs John Wood, in the grand Fairy Extravaganza 'Fair One with the Golden…

Instrumental music. Cover depicts portrait of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by images of flatboat, rail splitting and fishing materials, and Lincoln chopping wood. " 'Honest Old Abe' has split many a rail; He is up to his work, and he'll surely not…

Instrumental music. Cover depicts portrait of Abraham Lincoln. " 'Honest Old Abe' has split many a rail; He is up to his work, and he'll surely not fail, He has guided his flat-boat thro' many a strait, And watchful he'll prove at the helm of the…

Instrumental song for Lincoln's second presidential inauguration. "Performed by the Orchestra of the Milwaukee Musical Society at the Inauguration Ball."

Cover depicts a picture of Stephen A. Douglas. U.S. senator from Illinois, 1860 Democratic presidential nominee, and opponent of Abraham Lincoln in their famous series of 1858 debates, Douglas defended the Union cause and died on June 3, 1861, only a…

Although this item only contains one song, the publication originally contained three satirical anti-Copperhead campaign songs: "The Copperhead of 1864, The Chicago Copperhead and The Copperhead of 1865."Comparing them to the venomous snake,…

Although this item only contains one song, the publication originally contained three satirical anti-Copperhead campaign songs: "The Copperhead of 1864, The Chicago Copperhead and The Copperhead of 1865."Comparing them to the venomous snake,…

Although this item only contains one song, the publication originally contained three satirical anti-Copperhead campaign songs: "The Copperhead of 1864, The Chicago Copperhead and The Copperhead of 1865."Comparing them to the venomous snake,…