Image: Stationery package with an image of the "E Pluribus Unum" seal, which depicts an eagle clutching arrows in its talons. Includes a shield decorated with the stars and stripes. Two Union flags flank the seal and drape over an arch., Caption: Victory Package / 15 sheets commercial note paper. 16 buff envelopes. 5 white envelopes. 1 superior pen. 1 accommodation pen holder. 1 best quality pencil. 33 patriotic songs. 1 self-ruler for superscribing letters. 1 design for ladies' undersleeves. 1 design for child's apron. 1 design for ladies' embroidered collar. 1 design for infants' christening robe. 2 designs for marking letters. Also one piece of beautiful jewerly. / Receipts. For making gold, silver, silver-plating fluid, oreide, ladelible ink, bichromatic writing fluid, western cider without apples, honey without bees. Also for making whiskers grow, and hair to curl in beautiful ringlets. Secrets for catching game, foxes, and fish. And a complete cure for Rheumatism. A currency table, showing the value of a greenback in gold., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
On public transportation, two fashionable young men (a "pair of bloods") crowd a woman so much that her crinoline billows up, revealing her legs. The men's high opinion of themselves (as "big bugs," or men of importance) is not shared by the woman. A third man is visible in outline; each man wears a different style of hat., Text: Aint you a pretty pair of bloods, as in the cars you ride, / To croud and squeze a lady so, with room upon each side, / You are two big bugs indeed, the ladies think you are two swine, / To squeze a lady in the cars, and smash a crinoline., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
A Union soldier's head is shaped like a bomb, and his mouth is a smoking fuse. He stands next to a cannon. The title references the fairytale Jack and the beanstalk. The valentine mocks the soldier for his unappealing bad temper., Text: Who'd marry a man with a head like a bomb, / And a mouth with a smoking fusee? / What woman with him her life would trust, / For his head might at any moment burst, / And then, where would she be?, Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
The deserter kneels, with a dog in front of him and another dog behind him urinating on him. He holds a tub over his head to protect himself from the poker and the iron which his wife holds., Text: You left the Camp of war and strife, / Expecting quiet with your wife, / But you're assailed, behind, before, / You had better leave for war once more., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
The drum major wears a large hat and holds a batton. "D.B." [i.e. "dead beat"] was a term for soldiers who shirked their duties., Text: Go it, Drum Major, now's your chance, / High in the air make your baton dance; / Friend of the ladies, let me kiss you, / If you should die, oh how I'll miss you. / My eyes with tears would ne'er stop running -- / You old D.B., I'm only funning., "516", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
A Union soldier holds a long sword and draws it out of its scabbard. The sword is taller than the soldier., Text: So you want to get on McLellan's staff; / The though is enough to make any one laugh-- / Why, can't you see, you diminutive elf, / That your sword is almost as big as yourself? / Though you never will use it, / You should not abuse it, / And bang it about as you do; / For a sword of that size, / A man of your size, / From its scabbard never yet drew., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
The Lieutenant wears a blue Union lieutenant's uniform. His hair is white, and his face is dark with either dirt or facial hair. His mouth is open, his eyes are closed, and he spills gin as he marches. Gin has particularly negative connotations in the nineteenth century as the drink of the poor and unvirtuous., Text: Although you're a Lieutenant bold, / With sprouts upon thy chin; / At home you spent your store of gold / To drink a store of gin. / And, as your eyes with drunken lustre shine, / I ne'er can be your Valentine., "513", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Two Zouave Union soldiers run among rifles, pistols, cannons, and cannonballs, one of which is marked rum., Text: Zu-Zu, you made a splendid run, / From Bull-Run fight, to Washington. / By Bully Runners e'er so fleet; / Your feats of legs such wonders/ raised, / That every one has stood amazed. / So, Coward Recreant, Renegade, / Your Valentine I'll not be made., Cf. Valentine 11.49 and Valentine 11.50., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
A soldier sleeps with his arm around a barrel of lager and a gun resting on him. "Picket guard" means guard duty. His uniform is red and yellow, but his belt is marked "US" suggesting that he is a Union soldier., Text: Who said my lover fell asleep, / Or boozy was with liquor. / He only shut his darling eyes / To hear the Old Rebs the quicker., Cf. Valentine 11.31., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Give us back our old Commander (5 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Cop: 1862, Winner and Co., EDPa.; Winner and Co's music store (3); publ. Auner (3). A-J border. 23.9 x 14.8 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] yellow paper. 23.4 x 14.8 cm., Variant: c. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan ship border. 25.5 x 16.2 cm., Variant: d. Title: "Give Us Back Little Mac Our Old Commander"; publ. Johnson (2); adv: Johnson's New Catalogue of Songs. T. o. border. 23.7 x 14.5 cm., Variant: e. Words and Music by Sep: Winner; published by per- mission of Winner and Co. (3); publ. Johnson (2). A-J border. 24 x 13.7 cm., Variant: f. Publ. Johnson and Co. 22.4 x 11.5 cm., Variant: g. Adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2). Letter paper; single-line border; hdpc. Magnus 13, col. 20.5 x 12.5 cm., Variant: h. [As above;] letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 115, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 21 x 12.8 cm., Variant: i. [As above;] with line between text and adv. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 134, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.5 x 12.5 cm., Variant: j. [As above; without line between text and adv.] 20.2 x 12.5 cm., Variant: k. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 150, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20 x 12.5 cm., Variant: l. Adv: Send for Price List of Stephen's Colored Album Drolleries [publ.] Wm. A. Stephens. Letter paper; McClellan standing by his horse, col. 22.8 x 14 cm., Variant: m. Sheet no. 1115; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 23.3 x 14 cm.
The Union officer stands with his feet crossed and his hand on his hip. He holds one of his mutton chops, which are long and curled., Text: Oh, gallient officer, / With air so complacent, / With whiskers a la mutton chop, / And general [air] so dacent [missing word]-- / I'm sure I could not wed with thee, / For I'd never do my duty; / What could I do the live-long day, / But gaze upon thy beauty?, Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
