Abraham Lincoln Candidate, Lincoln Campaign Songster, 1864

Description

A diminutive pamphlet titled Lincoln Campaign Songster for year 1864. It is curious that the cover portrait depicts a beardless Lincoln, in spite of the fact he had already grown a beard.

Includes eleven political songs, such as: Shout Aloud for Lincoln, Hurrah! For Lincoln and Johnson (to be sung to the tune of John Brown’s Body,which would become The Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Union and Lincoln. An advertisement for Lincoln badges, pins, and emblems appears on the rear wrapper, too.

Very good; small chip on right margin with no loss of text; fore edge cut on a bias taking a smidge of the rear wrap text.

LINCOLN CAMPAIGN SONGSTER FOR THE USE OF CLUBS. CONTAINING ALL THE MOST POPULAR SONGS. Philadelphia: Mason & Co., 1864. Original wrappers; 16pp. (M323)