The sinking of the pirate Alabama by the U.S. gunboat "Kearsarge," Captain Winslow, June 19th, 1864

• 1864-1867

• Steele, Silas Sexton

• Magnus, Charles

1 broadside ([1] page) : color illustrations ; 21 x 13 cm

text

Date based on textual evidence (June 19th, 1864) and printer address in contemporaneous city directories

First line: I sing the doom and dark career

See variant edition: 001603-BROAD and 003221-BROAD

Song lettersheet text in blue; two columns; lined on verso; cropped at fold; five twelve-line stanzas, each with chorus, beneath Magnus headpiece displaying hand- colored (blue sky, green water) illustration of sinking of the Alabama with row boats in water

Special Collections copy hand-colored (pink sky, blue water)

Without music

"Published by Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., NY"--Beneath headpiece

"Tune: 'Teddy the Tiler', or 'Cannibal Islands.'"--Beside author's name

• United States

• Alabama (Screw sloop)
• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• Kearsarge (Sloop)

• History
• Music-Texts
• Naval battles
• Popular music

• text

• English

written by Silas S. Steele, Esq

New York, NY, Charles Magnus

Public domain (US)

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2020-10-26