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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. A wounded soldier sings of how his mother would comfort him, if she were with him.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Four verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Carry me back to old Virginia."

Illustrated six verse song in which two Irish Americans talk about the war and praise the Union.

Illustrated six verse song and chorus based on Jefferson Davis' capture on May 10, 1865. The scene depicts a popular myth that Davis tried to elude his captors by dressing as a woman.

Illustrated two verse love song and chorus, "As sung by C. Campbell of Carncross and Dixey's Minstrels"

Illustrated eight verse song and chorus about the oil drilling craze of the 1860s.