Large comprehensive collection of approximately 100 Civil War Era ballad sheets with musical themes about the Union, soldiers songs, battles, patriotism, black Americana, the South, love and friendship, and universal sentiments. All sheets with decorative borders, some borders illustrated, 7 sheets with hand colored images or details printed by Charles Magnus and H. De Marsan of New York. Other publishers include J. Magee and A.W. Auner of Philadelphia. Few duplicate titles but in different formats. Various sizes (largest 10x6½, smallest 7¾x4½), letterpress with hand coloring on thin buff paper.
Titles include Mother I've Come Home To Die, Weep Not Comrades For Me, The Bold Privateer, Our Country's Flag, Yankee Land, War Song Of The Union, Old Black Joe, She Danced Like A Fairy, Keystone Brigade, Give Us Back Our Old Commander, Marching Through Georgia, I'm Off For Charleston, Johnny Get Your Gun, The Southern Croos, Our Yankee Monitor, The Union Volunteers, The Monitor And The Merrimack, Victory At Last, The Union Right Or Wrong and Land Of The West.