1850s antique BROADSIDE music I\'M OFF FOR CHARLESTON scroggy RARE For Sale

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1850s antique BROADSIDE music I\'M OFF FOR CHARLESTON scroggy RARE:
$89.95

1850s antique BROADSIDE music I\'M OFF FOR CHARLESTON scroggy RARE
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Philadelphia: T. M. Scroggy, Publisher No. 443 Vine Street, 1853. Broadside. 8vo. 210 x 155 mm., [8 x 6 inches]. Lyrics only printed in five stanzas with chorus, enclosed within a decorative printed border. The Sulpher Springs referred to in the second line of the song is probably Montgomery, VA White Sulpher Springs. It became a hospital for Confederate soldiers, where slaves, among others ran the hospital. Today, there remains a Confederate Dead monument, a soldiers\' cemetery,a slaves cemetery and a nuns\' cemetery,all inaccessible to the public.(Info from Wikipedia)

Rare song sheet written in dialect, telling the story a young man and his true love Nell and his all the girls he met on his way to Charleston.

Lyrics by S. W. Auner who was the author of the song \"My Country \'Tis of Thee\" first printed in 1861.

I\'m off to Charleston was published in a number of editions in the 1850\'s, apparently the first was in 1853, printed in Philadelphia by Eckel and Johnson. This issue published by T. M. Scroggy appeared between 1853 and 1858. A number of editions also appeared in New York. A


Excellent original early family and/or town genealogy, history, antique, collectible heirloom and/or ephemera.
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