2025-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/26/2025
Song Sheet, 6-1/2" x 6-3/4", pasted to a larger album sheet. Titled "MARYLAND! MY MARYLAND!!" The lyrics are from a nine-stanza poem written by James Ryder Randall in 1861. One of the reported victims of these troop transport Baltimore riots was Francis X. Ward, a friend of James Ryder Randall. The poem was a plea to his home state of Maryland to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Randall later claimed the poem was written "almost involuntarily" in the middle of the night on April 26, 1861. A few lines "The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore.
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