Confederate and Southern Imprints
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 2: Armed Forces
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 2: Armed Forces / 2.2: Civil War
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1860-1866
container: label: Container
content: Box 34, Folder J
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Most of the items are copy written under the Confederate States of America. Although production quality is lower (cheaper) than the Union imprints, the songs are similar and often the same. The Civil War was musically unusual; both sides of the conflict shared many of the same songs about the war and it was often unclear to people from which side of the border a particular song had come from. Even if the patriotic songs did not transfer, the very popular sentimental themes of missing mother and the death of a young soldier knew no boundaries. (14 items)