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Song Theme
Tennessee Places
Tennessee History

Collection
Song Broadsides

Item ID
001514-BROAD

Accession Number
94-017 Goldstein

Title
The drummer boy of Nashville / by Robert Johnston.

Additional Title
Drummer boy of Nashville.

Creator
Johnston, Robert.

Date
1864

Publisher
Charles Magnus

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century.
Songs -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts.
Popular music -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts.
Drummers (Musicians) -- Songs and music -- Texts.
Soldiers -- Death -- Songs and music -- Texts.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile -- Songs and music -- Texts.

Physical Description
1 broadside (1 item on 1 sheet): col. ills. ; ca. 20.5 x 12.5 cm.

Location
binder 8, item 42

Series
kg 35/39

Notes
Without music.
Date based on copyright and Magnus printer addresses in contemporaneous NY city directories.
Song lettersheet text in blue; one column; lined on verso; cropped at fold; three eight-line stanzas, beneath Magnus headpiece displaying hand-colored illustration of Pennsylvania state seal on right with female Columbia figure with shield and flag on left.
At foot of song sheet: "Entered ... 1864, ... Magnus, in the Clerk's Office ... for the Southern District of New York."--beneath text.
"Ten illustrated Songs .... Published by Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., N. Y."--beneath copyright information.
At foot: "500 illustrated ballads, ... Charles Magnus, No. 12 Frankfort Street, New York. Branch Office: No. 520 7th St., Washington, D. C."
Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets, hdpc. Magnus 43a
Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets, 528
Please see the Kenneth S. Goldsein American Song Broadside website at http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/Broadsides/index.html for more information.

First Line
First line:
He went to the war with a heart full of glee.

Lyrics
For lyrics please see the Kenneth S. Goldstein Collection of American Song Broadsides website at http://tinyurl.com/csjamp9

Notation
Lyrics only

RecordID
92473
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