NATIONAL HYMNS.

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SOUVENIR EDITION.

This Souvenir Edition is especially prepared for and presented to the
Delegates of the Sixteenth National Encampment of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A.,
in session at Indianapolis, Indiana, September 9-12, 1897.

Mrs. J. V. Cooke,
EDITOR.

Any truly patriotic national hymn is, of necessity, the great peace
song and the great war song of the nation.-George Wm. Curtis.

NASH & NASH,
PUBLISHERS,

TIPTON, INDIANA.

Publishers' Пotice.

IN N order to have this Souvenir edition ready for the National Encampment of the Sons of Veterans it has been necessary to omit from the Supplement a large number of patriotic. ballads especially collected for this issue from Northern and Southern writers. These will appear, however, with valuable annotations in a later edition. Any of the music found in the volume will be furnished at the usual rates by application to Nash & Nash, Tipton, Ind.

Since the history of a number of the songs is necessarily incomplete for the want of sufficient data, any additional information will be gratefully acknowledged by the editor, to be addressed through the publishers.