CIVIL WAR]. RANDALL, JAMES J. Autograph manuscript signed of the popular Confederate ballad "My Maryland!" ("Maryland, My Maryland!"), n.p. [written in April 1861], this manuscript dated November 1893. 5 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos only of five leaves of plain paper, comprising nine full stanzas of eight lines each, with note at end by Randall: "Originally written, in 1861, at Pointe Coupée, La., by James R. Randall." [ With ]: RANDALL. Autograph letter signed in full to Isaac Roland of Freeport, Illinois; Baltimore, Md., 13 June 1893, 1 page, 4to : "...Demands on my time for the copying of the poem of 'My Maryland' have been so frequent that I had determined, as a rule, to resist them. I make an exception, in your case, for the sake of your good wife..." "MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND!" THE GREAT CONFEDERATE BATTLE-SONG An attractively penned fair copy of the celebrated Confederate anthem. Randall (1839-1908), its author, was born in Baltimore, attended Georgetown University, and was teaching in a creole school in Louisiana when he learned of a Baltimore mob's attack on a Union regiment (the 6th Massachusetts) as it marched through Baltimore to Washington D.C. A classmate of Randall's was among those wounded when the panicky troops opened fire on the crowd. "Deeply stirred, he was unable to sleep, and rose at midnight to jot down the lines beginning 'the despot's heel is on thy shore...'" ( DAB ). Published in the New Orleans Delta in May 1861, his stirring verses were soon reprinted throughout the South. Two Baltimore women adapted its words to the music of the well-known German song "O, Tannenbaum." Song-sheet editions proliferated and it rapidly became "the battle song of the South." Second in popularity only to Emmett's "Dixie," it was chosen by Maryland in 1939 as its official song and "has also...become the anthem for the annual Preakness horse race at Pimlico Race Track" (David A. Randall, American Patriotic Songs , Exhibition catalogue, Bloomington, Indiana, 1968, p. [13]). James J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music , pp. 355-357. Only two fair copies have appeared at auction since 1980, the last (on smaller paper) in the Philip M. Neufeld collection (sale, Christie's, NY, 25 April 1995, lot 7, $5,000).
CIVIL WAR]. RANDALL, JAMES J. Autograph manuscript signed of the popular Confederate ballad "My Maryland!" ("Maryland, My Maryland!"), n.p. [written in April 1861], this manuscript dated November 1893. 5 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos only of five leaves of plain paper, comprising nine full stanzas of eight lines each, with note at end by Randall: "Originally written, in 1861, at Pointe Coupée, La., by James R. Randall." [ With ]: RANDALL. Autograph letter signed in full to Isaac Roland of Freeport, Illinois; Baltimore, Md., 13 June 1893, 1 page, 4to : "...Demands on my time for the copying of the poem of 'My Maryland' have been so frequent that I had determined, as a rule, to resist them. I make an exception, in your case, for the sake of your good wife..." "MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND!" THE GREAT CONFEDERATE BATTLE-SONG An attractively penned fair copy of the celebrated Confederate anthem. Randall (1839-1908), its author, was born in Baltimore, attended Georgetown University, and was teaching in a creole school in Louisiana when he learned of a Baltimore mob's attack on a Union regiment (the 6th Massachusetts) as it marched through Baltimore to Washington D.C. A classmate of Randall's was among those wounded when the panicky troops opened fire on the crowd. "Deeply stirred, he was unable to sleep, and rose at midnight to jot down the lines beginning 'the despot's heel is on thy shore...'" ( DAB ). Published in the New Orleans Delta in May 1861, his stirring verses were soon reprinted throughout the South. Two Baltimore women adapted its words to the music of the well-known German song "O, Tannenbaum." Song-sheet editions proliferated and it rapidly became "the battle song of the South." Second in popularity only to Emmett's "Dixie," it was chosen by Maryland in 1939 as its official song and "has also...become the anthem for the annual Preakness horse race at Pimlico Race Track" (David A. Randall, American Patriotic Songs , Exhibition catalogue, Bloomington, Indiana, 1968, p. [13]). James J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music , pp. 355-357. Only two fair copies have appeared at auction since 1980, the last (on smaller paper) in the Philip M. Neufeld collection (sale, Christie's, NY, 25 April 1995, lot 7, $5,000).
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