[Civil War Music] The Rebel Songster. Containing a Choice Collection of Sentimental, Patriotic and Comic Songs. Compiled By A Musical Gentleman of This City.

[Civil War Music]

The Rebel Songster. Containing a Choice Collection of Sentimental, Patriotic and Comic Songs. Compiled By A Musical Gentleman of This City.

Richmond: Ayres & Wade. 1864. First edition. Very rare anonymous Confederate imprint. Small 8vo. (18 cm), disbound, 26 pp [of 48]. Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6724; Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 3266.

"To supplement sheet music, Southern presses issued several pocket songbooks containing the words of sentimental and patriotic tunes....Letters, diaries and reminiscences of soldiers indicate that the great flood of new songs published during the war made little dent in Rebel ranks. The list of camp favorites was fairly small and it was made up to a large extent of melodies familiar before the war." (Bell Irvin Wiley, "The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy," p. 152) (10713)

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