On verso of t.p.: Composition and electrotyping by C. F. Mattoon and Company, Boston.


Civil war songster, poet, and beloved entertainer of the age. Born in Constantia, New York in 1830, death in Pasadena, CA 1897, active duty in the Civil War where his singing and verse was held in the highest regards.

POet of the people. Wrote Chidren of the Battlefield regarding the famoujs photos of children found in the hand of a dead Union Soldier.