SHEET MUSIC – CIVIL WAR – GEN. LYONS FUNERAL MARCH – 1861 – LITHOGRAPH COVER
Sheet music, 13 ¼ x 10 ½, 5pp complete. Strong lithograph cover artwork. 
Nathaniel Lyon (1818 – 1861) was a United States Army officer who was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. He is noted for his actions in Missouri in 1861, at the beginning of the conflict, to forestall secret secessionist plans of the governor Claiborne Jackson.
A scarcer civil war title. From bound volume, with light accompanying bindery markings along spine, some light random soiling and wear, overall Fine condition, clean and visually appealing. Sm cw 801 175.