The Drummer Boy of Shiloh: a beautiful ballad

written & composed by Will. S. Hays. For voice and piano. First line: On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground. "To Miss Annie Cannon, Louisville, KY." Verse 3-5 printed separately. Cover lithographic illustration of expiring drummer-boy and other wounded soldiers being attended in foreground, battle in background.

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Original record: The Drummer Boy of Shiloh: a beautiful ballad
Collection: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907 (composer)
Subject(s): Ballads, English
Civil War, 1861-1865
History
Military music
Sheet Music
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
Songs and music
Songs with piano
United States
Type: notated music

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