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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

All the way home : a biography of William F. Sudds (1843-1920) of Gouverneur, Saint Lawrence County, New York

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113249134]
Identifier: 6907
Scope and content Includes illustrated biographical essays relating to William F. Sudds, a musician and composer, his mentor, Carl Bruche; James Sayer for whose Civil War poem, "Beautiful Flowers," Sudds composed music; William Lyman Blakeslee, whose "The Angels are Waiting," with music by Carl Bruche also appears in the Y.M.C.A. Praise Book; Dudley Buck, whose "Festival Hymn," was played by at the first concert of the Choral Union of Gouverneur;...
Dates: 2010.

Civil War songs and cartoons

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113563666]
Identifier: 8582
Scope and content 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,...
Dates: circa 1861-1865.

Fairley and Stevens family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4341
Scope and content Correspondence, diaries, accounts, guardianship documents, and estate settlement papers of William D. Fairley (d. 1871) and his wife Catherine (later Mrs. Melvin James Stevens). Included are letters from James Stalker, describing hospital conditions during the Civil War; Mrs. Fairley's sister, Mrs. Hugh Moore, Nashua, Iowa; her son Charles Fairley, Nebraska; the Copeland family, other relatives, and friends; and letters to Charles from his mother and stepfather. Also, documents relating...
Dates: 1839-1907.

Music pamphlet collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 87 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070748763]
Identifier: 8047m
Scope and content

"Songs for the Union League of America," 1864; and "Leavitt's Songster," ca. 1863.

Dates: 1863-1864.