Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Music Sheet, “GOD SAVE THE SOUTH!”, by Earnest Halphin, published by BLACKMAR & BRO., 199 Broad Street, Augusta Georgia, printed by J.T. Paterson, Auguata, Georgia, 1864, 6pp, two color cover. “God Save the South” was written by George H. Miles under the pseudonym Earnest Halphin, soon after the war started. Miles was a Marylander, a state that did not officially secede and join the confederacy, but, being a border state, had several citizens with sympathies for the south. An interesting thing to note about the song is the reference to George Washington (the first president of the United States) in the song’s fifth verse. Apparently, the author of the song meant to tie in Washington’s stance as a rebel against the British in the American revolution with the South’s rebellion against the northern United States in the civil war.
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