Many different versions of this book for different cities, however this particular one for Sing Sing, N.Y. is not on WorldCat

"Some useful rations from "Acme Haversack: This song Sounvenir of Old war songs and New and old Patriotic and National Songs, is presented to the Comrades of the GAR and The Spanish WAR, and Associate Societies and the Americans and patriots of Sing Sing, N.Y. and Vicinithy with the Compliments of their Friends and WEll Wishers whose names Appear Within"

Sing Sing was the third prison built by New York State. The first prison was built in 1797 in Greenwich Village and a second one in 1816 called Auburn State Prison.[7]

In 1824 the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison. Lynds spent months researching possible locations for the prison, considering Staten Island, The Bronx, and Silver Mine Farm, an area in the town of Mount Pleasant, located on the banks of the Hudson River.

He also visited New Hampshire, where a prison was successfully constructed by inmate labor, using stone that was available on-site. For this reason, by May, Lynds had finally decided on Mount Pleasant, located near a small village in Westchester County with the unlikely name of Sing Sing. This appellation was derived from the Native American words "Sinck Sinck" which translates to "stone upon stone".[8] The legislature appropriated $20,100 to purchase the 130-acre (0.53 km2) site, and the project received the official stamp of approval.[8] Lynds hand-selected 100 inmates from his own private stock for transfer and had them transported by barge along the Erie Canal to freighters down the Hudson River. On their arrival on May 14, the site was "without a place to receive them or a wall to enclose them"; "temporary barracks, a cook house, carpenter and blacksmith’s shops" were rushed to completion.[9][10]

When it was opened in 1826,[11] Sing Sing was considered a model prison, because it turned a profit for the state, and by October 1828 was finally completed.[7] Lynds employed the Auburn system, which imposed absolute silence on the prisoners; the system was enforced by whipping and other brutal punishments.