Battles, Program Music
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: 1861-1888
container: label: Container
content: Box 36, Folder CC
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: These programmatic compositions are meant to musically describe the action of well-known Civil War battles. All items, except one, date from the 1860s. Some sheets have illustrated lithographic covers; one has a very dramatic color lithograph. (12 items)