Research Catalog

Title

Poems of the war, by George H. Boker.

Author

Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890.

Publication

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1864.

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Additional Authors

• Ticknor and Fields, publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer, stereotyper.
• Welch, Bigelow & Co., printer, stereotyper.

Description

vi, [1], 8-202 p.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Publisher's advertisement on p. [ii].
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by George H. Boker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge"--printer and stereotyper statement, verso of title page; and also on colophon: "Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow & Co."

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of third free endleaf [partially missing due to trimming] "First edition of the ... famous war songs ... George H. Boker 186... J.E. Burton." ; Inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Chesebrough." with the bookplate on front pastedown "Alfred Chesebrough." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Invocation -- Poems of the war: The ride to camp ; Upon the hill before Centreville ; Zagonyi ; On board the Cumberland ; The sword-bearer ; The ballad of New Orleans ; The Varuna ; The crossing at Fredericksburg ; Hooker's across! ; Eric, the minstrel ; The black regiment ; Before Vicksburg ; The Battle of Lookout Mountain ; In the wilderness ; Ode to America ; Oremus ; Ad poetas ; The flag ; Dragoon's song ; Lancer's song ; Cavalry song ; March along ; The free flag ; Song for the Loyal National League ; A battle hymn ; Hymn for the Fourth of July, 1863 ; Sonnets: "Blood, blood!", "Oh! Craven, craven!", "Brave comrade, answer!", Grant ; Dirge for a soldier -- Miscellaneous poems: Prince Ader ; Abon's charity ; Idleness ; Winter winds ; Elisha Kent Kane ; Dirge.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-B (Boker, G. H. Poems of the war)

OCLC

• 224850
• NYPGR224850-B

Author

Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890.

Title

Poems of the war, by George H. Boker.

Imprint

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1864.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-B (accession no. B527083) inscribed: in ink on recto of third free endleaf [partially missing due to trimming] "First edition of the ... famous war songs ... George H. Boker 186... J.E. Burton." ; Inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Chesebrough." with the bookplate on front pastedown "Alfred Chesebrough." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Ticknor and Fields, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer, stereotyper.

Welch, Bigelow & Co., printer, stereotyper.

Chesebrough, Alfred, former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-B (Boker, G. H. Poems of the war)

NBI (Boker, G. H. Poems of the war)