Civil War songs printed as broadsides (words only), together with a small number of printed color cartoons with captions in verse. Songs include several about the recruitment of African American soldiers for the Union Army, published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. Individual titles include "The black regiment," "Old Shady," "Song of the Negro boatman," "Battle hymn of the Republic" (by Julia Ward Howe), "Song of the First of Arkansas," "Just before the battle, Mother," "Give us back our old commander," "Grant's the man," "Bring my brother back to me" (by Stephen Foster), "Dear Mother, I've come home to eat," "How are you, conscripts?", "How are you, green-backs?", "John Brown," "Gen. Grant's boys," "How to close this cruel war," and others. Cartoons mock cowardly and lazy soldiers, shirkers, corrupt and incompetent officers, those who stay at home rather than fight, and those who return to the front to escape their home life. Illustrations consist mainly of wood engravings and woodcuts.