Funeral and monument song

Item Information

• Description
  Broadside reprinted from the "Border Song Book" featuring a song titled "To the Memory of the Brave Wells and McComas, Who Shot General Ross!", sung to the tune of the "Star-Spangled Banner." According to popular legend, two teenage boys from Baltimore, Daniel Wells and Henry McComas, shot and killed the British Major General Robert Ross as he rode his army toward Baltimore during the War of 1812.

• Item ID
  bdsmd30930
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Maryland
  Baltimore (Md.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Funeral and monument song
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1858-09-13
• Folder
  MD3
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
• Subject
  United States--History--War of 1812
  Anniversaries

• Copyright & Usage
  None