1865 JEFFERSON DAVIS | CIVIL WAR. Scarce Broadside & Satyrical Song on Capture and Hanging of Confederate President George Whitefield And so under the sway

And so under the sway of the Spirit's working in his heart was he during Whitefield's sermon that he dropped it

An absolutely wonderful early manuscript book executed by George Birkenhead with a date of July 31

in which the arms captured would be used in the following engagement at Bunker Hill

Hundreds have lost their all & hundreds more are out of employ & it may be houseless

been followed by an obstinate Diarrhea which neither diet nor medicine seems to affect & having always been free from that when others have suffered so much it seems the more singular

1865 JEFFERSON DAVIS | CIVIL WAR. Scarce Broadside & Satyrical Song on Capture and Hanging of Confederate President George Whitefield And so under the swayA wonderful and rather scarce Civil War broadside; we are, in fact, not able to trace another example. Issued on the capture of former Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, it predicts a forthcoming hanging, perhaps even complete with his being dangled in the women's clothing he was reported to be disguised in when captured. The lyrics themselves are by one of the wittiest of the Civil War songers, Byron DeWolfe. [1835 1873]. Printed onwove paper