[Sheet music for George H. Briggs' song Rally Boys, Rally! or "Reconstruction"]

[Sheet music for George H. Briggs' song Rally Boys, Rally! or "Reconstruction"]

Ephemera

[Sheet music for George H. Briggs' song Rally Boys, Rally! or "Reconstruction"]

ca. 1868
Albumen silver print, lithograph, and letterpress print
Image (oval, left): 4 3/16 × 3 7/16 in. (10.7 × 8.8 cm)
Image (oval, right): 4 3/16 × 3 7/16 in. (10.7 × 8.8 cm)
Overall: 13 7/16 × 10 in. (34.2 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer, ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
2007.0262.0012
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on cover page recto, TRC: DU[illeg.] \ 1868
Printed on cover page recto, C: TO \ THE UNION MEN OF THE U.S. \ RALLY BOYS, RALLY! \ U. S. GRANT SCHUYLER COLFAX \ OR \ RECONSTRUCTION \ Song & Chorus \ Sung for the first time at the Great Republican Convention in Chicago May 1868 \ Composed by \ GEORGE H. BRIGGS \ Author of "There's naught so light as love" "He came wehn the Autumn was closing" &c. &c. \ LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, \ Published by A. E. MANNING & Co. 94 Delaware St. \ St. Louis Mo. Poppen & Botefuhr J.J. Dobmeyer & Co. \ Cincinnati O. John Church, Jr. J.J. Dobmeyer & Co. \ New York Wm. A. Pond & Co. J.L. Peters \ Phila. Lee & Walker G. Andre & Co. \ Boston, Oliver Ditson. G.D. Russell & Co. \ New Orleans, A. E. Blackman. Grünewald. \ Ent. according Act of Congress A. D. 1868 by A. E. Manning & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court for the Eastn. Dist. of Kansas. \ C. O. Clayton, Engr. Lith. Print, New York
Printed on first page recto, TC: RALLY, BOYS, RALLY! \ OR \ "RECONSTRUCTION" \ Song and Chorus \ by \ GEORGE H. BRIGGS.
Inscribed in pencil on last page verso, TLC: 21 [circled] \ 5.00

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