Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.22254 Composed by Charles Carroll Sawyer. Civil War--Union, War casualties, Mothers & children, Deathbeds. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.22254). Mother Would Comfort Me. Song and Chorus. Words and Music Composed by Charles Carroll Sawyer. Published 1863 by Sawyer & Thompson, 59 Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Civil War--Union, War casualties, Mothers & children, Deathbeds. First line reads Wounded and sorrowful, far from my home, sick among strangers, uncared for, unknown.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
