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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.

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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."

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 praising the patriotism and sacrifice of Union volunteers from New York.

Illustrated two verse song and chorus lamenting the loss of loved ones.

Illustrated six verse song calling on Union volunteers from Brooklyn, New York.

Illustrated three verse song sung to the tune of "After the Battle." A woman support her sweetheart going off to war, even if he must die.

Illustrated two verse song sung to the tune of "Jeannette and Jeannot." A common Civil War theme, in which a woman praises the patriotism and sacrifice of her sweetheart's miilitary service, copies of this song sheet often included an ilustration of…

Illustrated two verse song sung to the tune of "Jeannette and Jeannot." A common Civil War theme, in which a woman praises the patriotism and sacrifice of her sweetheart's miilitary service, copies of this song sheet often included an ilustration of…

Illustrated two verse song sung to the tune of "Jeannette and Jeannot." A common Civil War theme, in which a woman praises the patriotism and sacrifice of her sweetheart's miilitary service, copies of this song sheet often included an ilustration of…

Illustrated two verse song sung to the tune of "Jeannette and Jeannot." A common Civil War theme, in which a woman praises the patriotism and sacrifice of her sweetheart's miilitary service, copies of this song sheet often included an ilustration of…