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Sheet music cover and lyrics of the "comic song" called "The Carpetbagger." Cover shows a drawing of a carpetbagger with the spoils of Reconstruction in a large carpetbag. The song is dedicated to General Ben Butler.
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Tennesse State Library and Archives

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Music Publishing Industry
  2. Music Title Pages
  3. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  4. Rochow, A.L. Von
  5. Sheet Music Covers

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