Nelly Gray, or Ben Battle was a soldier bold: Being No. 4 of The Ballad Singer, a collection of comical comic songs

set to music by J. Blewitt. Pl. no. 3678. Includes the same words set to an old air, same pl. no., continuously paginated. Cover etching by and after John Phillips: double-amputee soldier on wooden legs and crutches entering room and surprising woman and cat.

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Original record: Nelly Gray, or Ben Battle was a soldier bold: Being No. 4 of The Ballad Singer, a collection of comical comic songs
Collection: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Date(s): 1800 – 1850
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Blewitt, J. (Jonathan), 1782-1853 (creator)
Subject(s): Amputees
Ballads
Broadsides
Great Britain
Invalids
Sheet Music
Sheet music covers
War victims
Type: text

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