CIVIL WAR]. RANDALL, JAMES J. Autograph manuscript signed of the popular Civil War ballad "My Maryland!" ("Maryland, My Maryland!"), n.p. [written in April 1861], this manuscript dated November 1893. 5 pages, 8vo, in ink on rectos only of five sheets of glazed paper, 9 stanzas of 8 lines. An attractively penned fair copy, with a note by Randall on the last page: "Written originally in Pointe Coupée, La., April 1861. Copied, in November, 1893, for my esteemed cousin Virginia Evans, of Buffalo, N.Y." "MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND!" THE GREAT CONFEDERATE BATTLE-SONG Randall (1839-1908), author of this celebrated Confederate anthem, was born in Baltimore, attended Georgetown University, and was teaching in a creole school in Louisiana when he learned of a mob's attack on a Union regiment (the 6th Massachusetts) as it marched through Baltimore to Washington. A classmate of Randall's was among those wounded when the troops opened fire on the crowd. "Deeply stirred, he was unable to sleep, and rose at midnight to jot down the lines beginning 'the despot's heel is on thy shore...'" ( DAB ). Published in the New Orleans Delta in May 1861, his stirring verses were soon reprinted throughout the South. Two Baltimore women adapted the words to the music of the German song "O, Tannenbaum." Song-sheet editions proliferated and it rapidly became "the battle song of the South." Second in popularity only to Emmett's "Dixie," it was chosen by Maryland in 1939 as its official song and "has also...become the anthem for the annual Preakness horse race at Pimlico Race Track" David A.Randall, American Patriotic Songs , Exhibition catalogue, Bloomington, Indiana, 1968, p.[13]). See James J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music , pp.355-357. The last fair copy to appear at auction was in 1981.
CIVIL WAR]. RANDALL, JAMES J. Autograph manuscript signed of the popular Civil War ballad "My Maryland!" ("Maryland, My Maryland!"), n.p. [written in April 1861], this manuscript dated November 1893. 5 pages, 8vo, in ink on rectos only of five sheets of glazed paper, 9 stanzas of 8 lines. An attractively penned fair copy, with a note by Randall on the last page: "Written originally in Pointe Coupée, La., April 1861. Copied, in November, 1893, for my esteemed cousin Virginia Evans, of Buffalo, N.Y." "MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND!" THE GREAT CONFEDERATE BATTLE-SONG Randall (1839-1908), author of this celebrated Confederate anthem, was born in Baltimore, attended Georgetown University, and was teaching in a creole school in Louisiana when he learned of a mob's attack on a Union regiment (the 6th Massachusetts) as it marched through Baltimore to Washington. A classmate of Randall's was among those wounded when the troops opened fire on the crowd. "Deeply stirred, he was unable to sleep, and rose at midnight to jot down the lines beginning 'the despot's heel is on thy shore...'" ( DAB ). Published in the New Orleans Delta in May 1861, his stirring verses were soon reprinted throughout the South. Two Baltimore women adapted the words to the music of the German song "O, Tannenbaum." Song-sheet editions proliferated and it rapidly became "the battle song of the South." Second in popularity only to Emmett's "Dixie," it was chosen by Maryland in 1939 as its official song and "has also...become the anthem for the annual Preakness horse race at Pimlico Race Track" David A.Randall, American Patriotic Songs , Exhibition catalogue, Bloomington, Indiana, 1968, p.[13]). See James J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music , pp.355-357. The last fair copy to appear at auction was in 1981.
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