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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00968 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Civil War Songbook |
| Date | 24 November 1862 |
| Document Type | Miscellany |
| Content Description | Contains lyrics to several martial, sentimental, religious and romantic songs. Titles include "John Brown Song" (usually called "John Brown's Body") “Sung by Fletcher Webster’s Regiment in Boston [sic],” “Traitor, Spare That Flag,” “Oh, For a Home Amid the Hills,” “Jane Feeding the Poor Robin,” “Glory for the North (usually called 'Glory Hallelujah'')," "Bonny Eloise,” and “Some Twenty Years Ago.” The songs are illustrated with hand-drawn watercolors, including a woman (possibly Lady Liberty) holding a lamp and a patriotic shield, a man holding a rifle, a landscape with Indians hunting deer, a depiction of a bearded man - evidently Abraham Lincoln - seated at a desk, a woman looking out the window at a robin, a Zouave soldier holding a sword and a flag, a bluebird, and a landscape. Crude bindings still visible. |
| Subjects | American Indian History Military History Civil War Art, Music, Theater, and Film Poetry John Brown Union Forces Treason American Flag Women's History American Indian History President |
| People | Brown, John (1800-1859) Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Place written | s.l. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |