July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Union soldier’s Manuscript Songsheet Signed “Composed by Lewis M. Prall Co. A 1st Infantry Reg. Pa. Reserves.” also known as the 30th Pennsylvania Infantry, 4pp. octavo, Fairfax Station, Virginia, June 13, 1863, entitled “Hurrah for Mack” and reads in part: “...Oh! When I first enlisted/ My Country’s cause to fight/ Father, Mother, Dearest Sister/ Did I not do right?/ When first we meet the foe/ and dove them in the fight/ And stood so nobly by our flag/ Say did we not do right?...But when Brave Mack they did remove/ And some refused to fight/ To see their noblest General go/ Were they not in the right?...This war will soon be at an end/To say the Copperheads/But before we’d make terms with such a band/our blood we’d freely shed...” VG. In Feb., 1863, the 30th Pennsylvania Regiment was assigned to the 5th corps under Gen. Meade, and at Gettysburg under Gen. Crawford. In Co. K were many Gettysburg men, some even fighting on their own fields and within sight of their homes.
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