Not all Civil War relics are buttons or bayonets.
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| Root Hog or Die. No. 5. (excerpt). New York: H. De Marsan, c.1862. |
by John B. Green III
The Union Army, in its more than four-year-long occupation of New Bern, created tens of thousands of printed documents. These documents were almost exclusively military in nature: printed orders, reports, and forms for every conceivable purpose. There was another category of printed items, however, which were privately produced: programs for plays and concerts put on by the soldiers, handbills of humorous or patriotic poetry, and memorial volumes for individual soldiers who had died in the line of duty. What follows is a selection of such items from the collections of the Kellenberger Room.
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Root Hog or Die. No. 5. New York: H. De Marsan, c.1862. Comic poem, "By a Blue-Jacket," concerning the capture of eastern North Carolina.
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| Root Hog or Die (enlargment) |
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| Genl. Burnside's Victory March, Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1862. Sheet music celebrating Burnside's victory at New Bern. |
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| Vincent Colyer, Report of the Services rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army, in North Carolina, in the Spring of 1862. New York: author, 1864. Account by Vincent Colyer, Superintendent of the Poor, concerning his work with the freed slaves of New Bern and vicinity. |
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| G.H. Sutherland, There is no Place like Home, n.p., 1862. Sentimental poem about the author's home in the North. |
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| William A. Stearns, Adjutant Stearns, Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1862. Memorial volume for First Lieutenant Frazar A. Stearns, Company I, Twenty-first Massachusetts Infantry. Stearns, the son of the president of Amherst College, was killed during the Battle of New Bern, March 14, 1862. |
