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The Wounded soldier's appeal.
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Contributor
Gingry, David, Jr.
McCrum & Dern, printer.
Title
The Wounded soldier's appeal.
Title
First line: Kind friend, a soldier, brave and true,
Title
Empty sleeve
Publisher
[Altoona, Pa.] : McCrum & Dern, printers, Altoona, Pa
Publisher
PA. Altoona. 1865
Date
[ca. 1865?]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 27 x 16 cm.
Notes
Verse in twelve stanzas.
At foot of poem: David Gingry, Jr.
A prose account of Gingry's service in the Army of the Potomac, during the Civil War, precedes the poem; Gingry was severely wounded and sold the poem to support his family.
At head of title: Price ten cents each side.
Printed side-by-side with The Empty sleeve, then separated for sale.
Printed in two columns separated by a vertical rule; the printed area, including ornamental border, measures 24.2 x 12.2 cm.
Library Company copy was pasted into a scrapbook, then removed; newspaper clippings of other poems are pasted to the verso.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject
Disabled veterans -- Poetry.
Geographic subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
Genre
Broadside poems.
Broadsides.
Poems -- 1865.
Printer
McCrum & Dern, printer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | sm# Am 1865 Wounded 13924.Q
Accession number
13924.Q
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Civil War Broadsides
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