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The Libby Prison hymn

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Year:
1864
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Death in poetry
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons
Local ID:
HB9999
Extent:
1 broadside : ill. ; 22 x 10 cm.
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Notes:
Illustrated headbands at top and bottom.
At head of title: Price 5 cents.
At head of text: Composed and written by a dying soldier in Libby Prison, for the benefit of a crippled soldier.
"Original state of hymn published in Ohio in 1858, before there was a Libby Prison" ( information from Dr. Richard H. Hulan).

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"The Libby Prison hymn" (1864). Harris Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:278571/

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    Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of …
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