Charles Magnus Eleven Civil War Song Sheets. 1863-1864. Illustrated Broadsides

  
[Eleven Civil War Song Sheets]. Very good or better copies. Charles Magnus (1826 -1900) a printer based in New York, though not known for his original designs, as were Currier & Ives, was admired greatly for the quality and color of his prints, and the craftsmanship of his use of steel, copper, and stone engraved plates with color applied in hand or stencil. He issued numerous song sheets, most with colored images, in various series, and many with numerous variants. Most are three to five stanzas and measure between 20.4 to 21 cm by 12.6 to 13 cm. Includes: (1) Home without a Mother. Image: one of two of Camp Carroll, Baltimore, temporarily known as Camp Chesebrough in 1864. Wolf: American Song Sheets: 898d. To the mountain's brow. Image: Rendez-vous of Distribution, Va. A hospital camp in Alexandria which had been restructured as Camp Distribution, a station for soldiers awaiting their deployment orders. (3) The Banner of the Free. Air: The Sword of Bunker Hill - by Eugene Johnston. Image: Liberty holding flag and flag shield with eagle at her side. (4) The Star Spangled Banner. Image: Headpiece liberty with flag and shield, cannon barrel, canon balls, muskets and more. (5) Tell Mother I Die Happy. The last words of Lieut.

Crosby, who was killed in his battery at Salem Heights in the fight of Sunday evening, May 2d, 1863. Image: Angle hold wounded soldier in garden with tree, mother praying, house in rear. (6) The Song of All Songs, No. Collins, at the American Theatre, 444 Broadway. Air: The captain with his whiskers.

Image: Jarvis General Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Image: Liberty holding American Flag. LCP, NYHS, AAS (in German with different image).

(8) The Banner of the Free. Image: seated general flanked by flags. (9) Let the Rebels put that in their Pipes. Air: I was the Boy for bewitching'em. Image: Union cavalry charge with fleeing Confederates.

Copies at LCP, John Hopkins, MTSU, Brown, Lincoln Presidential. Exhibited at the Capitol February 22, 1862. Air: The Sword of Bunker Hill.

Image: wounded soldiers with an armored ironclad gunboat, possibly the USS Monitor in the background. Copies at LCP, AAS, MTSU (11) Give us Back our old Commander. Image: McClellan and other officers on horseback with soldiers in the background. Copies at LCP, AAS (variant i), MTSU, Brown, Lincoln Presidential, Univ.

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1. Binding: Paper wrappers
2. Language: English
3. Author: Magnus, Charles, lithographer
4. Publisher: Charles Magnus
5. Subject: Military & War
6. Year Printed: 1864
7. Original/Facsimile: Original