Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, almost entirely poetry and songs. Leaf 1 recto is inscribed: Book of Union poetry 1861, gift of Edward D. Mitchell. Pages hand numbered, beginning with leaf 3 verso. Page [2] has hand written title: The book of Union poetry. Being selections from the newspapers published in Apl, May, June, July 1861. Some leaves have been removed or lost, leaving seven stubs. Includes poems by Charles G. Leland, Mrs. Hemans, J. Freon, Juliet H. L. Campbell, Edward Sprague Rand, Angelina Hope, G. Gumpert, C. H. Webb, E. H. Sears, Mary Jane Cunningham, Thomas M'Keever, Miss Dickinson, K. N. Pepper, William H. Burleigh, Mylo, E. C. Stedman, C. J. Warren, James Donnelly, G. C. Howard, John N. Wilder, Schuyler Conway, Frank H. Norton, Sarah S. Socwell, W. T. Urquhart, Edward C. Jones, H. C. P., Edna Dean Proctor, John Clancy, H. Millard, A. Mudsill, Charles Godfrey Leland, George P. Morris, J. H. M'Naughton, G. W. Bethune, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Hopper, Mrs. S. J. Megargee, J. B. Bacon, Caroline F. Orne, Sam Whiting, Jenny M. Parker, George T. Bourne, John Palmaer, G. W. Light, W. W. Howe, Abraham Lincoln, J. H. W., C. D. Stuart, Fanny Fales, James Hoffman, James M'Henry, Sarah Warner Brooks, William Ross Wallace, James H. Morse, James V. Murray, John Palmer, Mrs. E. B. S., R. H. Stoddard, A. C. Eaton, W. W. Story, R. T., Jacob Carter, E. C. S. Augusta Cooper Kimball, Charles D. Gardette, Garryowne, W. D. Greville, B. W. Kirkham, H. S. Cornwell, George Boweryem, M. R. M., D. G. Adee, Mary H. C. Booth, Zelotes R. Bennett, Emily H. Miles, F. B. Copp, J. Griffith, Mary A. Denison, John De Laski, Jonas B. Phillips, Halbert E. Paine, Louise E. Vickroy, Chester H. Childs, J. G. W., Charles Dawson Shanly, Beatrix, Nannie, Dr. Reynolds, A. H., Thomas Haynes Hayley, Miss H. F. Gould, M. C. H., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mrs. S. E. Wallace, Bayard Taylor, J. P. H., H. W., C. I. Brooks, J. C. Hagen, Albert Pike, Francis Lieber, Harriet beecher Stowe, E. W. B. Canning, George P. Morris, John E. M'Caullay, W. E. E., J. C. B., H. A. Foster, Frank, John F. Coles, J. G. Whittier, T. Buchanan Read, M. R. Bradbury, M. A. Potts, Florence Willesford Dorron, H. Clay Preuss, A. Fulkerson, H. R. Tracy, Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Culley Bryant, H. J. Sargent, Ada J. Moore, Alice B. Haven. Includes poems on patriotics themes, satires, laments, and one poem is in black dialect. There is a small cartoon lampooning African American musicians on the rear paste-down.
