Crescent City Guards’ Quickstep cover title .; Composed

by a High Private by Confederate Sheet Music, Louisiana

$500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

New Orleans, LA : A. E. Blackmar, c1861 . First edition. 4to. 5 pp. “To Capt. John A. Hall” at head of cover; music only, title leaf entirely printed in red. The Crescent City Guards served as Co. A in the 24th Louisiana Infantry, the Crescent Regiment, active at the battles of Shiloh and Corinth in 1862. Title at head of page 3: Crescent City Guards’ Quickstep.” Parish & Willingham 6946 Library of Congress, Indiana . OCLC locates three copies

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