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The Drummer Boy of Shiloh: a beautiful ballad

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Year:
1865
Contributor:
Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907 (composer)
Genre:
sheet music
Subject:
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Songs with piano
Ballads, English > United States
Military music > United States
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 > Songs and music
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Songs and music
Extent:
1 score (6 p.) : ill. ; 35 cm.
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written & composed by Will. S. Hays.
For voice and piano.
First line: On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground.
"To Miss Annie Cannon, Louisville, KY."
Verse 3-5 printed separately.
Cover lithographic illustration of expiring drummer-boy and other wounded soldiers being attended in foreground, battle in background.

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

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Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh: a beautiful ballad " (1865). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:428250/

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