Description: John Williamson Palmer Stonewall Jackson's Way. By J[ohn] W[illiamson] Palmer. The Manuscript from which this is printed was written by the Author for Edmund Clarence Stedman, and is now privately printed for the Friends of the present Owner, W[illiam] K. Bixby. St. Louis, Missouri, mcmxv Pages 7. Edition of 200 copies printed. I have only seen 3 copies of this title, and all 3 carry the printed statement "Two hundred copies of this edition were printed, of which this is number...." but I have yet to see a copy that actually states what copy number it is!! The publisher (William K. Bixby) had this privately printed and he then gave copies out to various people. I have seen one copy that carries the inscription that he presented it to Theodore Roosevelt on 12/16/[19]15. The copy I am listing was given to one George Foster Peabody (1852-1938, Noted American banker and philanthropist), with no date inscribed. One of the most interesting features of Bixby’s book- and manuscript-collecting genius was his privately funded publishing program for works he had acquired. He often created highly useful first printings of original correspondence and disseminated them to libraries nationwide. In this way he produced and distributed the famous Journal of Major John André, Alexander Hamilton’s Itinerarium, and the Private Journal of Aaron Burr. Bixby also published works of local Missouri interest such as Grant in St. Louis, by Walter Stevens, and The Brown-Reynolds Duel: A Complete Documentary of the Last Bloodshed under the Code between St. Louisans. He also published various poems of Eugene Field in elaborately illustrated editions. "Stonewall Jackson's Way" is a poem penned during the American Civil War that later became a well-known patriotic song of the Confederate States and the Southern United States. It became very popular, but its authorship was unknown until almost 25 years later. The poem honors the famed Confederate Army officer Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862; however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate sergeant after the First Battle of Winchester, May 25, 1862. It is possible this alternative origin story was concocted to prevent Palmer, from Baltimore, from being arrested as a Confederate sympathizer. LOCATION: LIBRARY Shelf 1
Price: 1500 USD
Location: Stockton, California
End Time: 2025-01-12T01:05:16.000Z
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