Rose Hill Ladies’ Soldiers Relief Association: 5th Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 February 1865.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 February 1865.

     Features blurbs concerning Wallace.  “His lyric, ‘The Fall of Vicksburgh’—it is glorious,” says Cassius M. Clay.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 March 1865.

     “will consist of  the delivery by William Ross Wallace of his popular Discourse on PETER THE GREAT AND RUSSIA, Recitations of some of his celebrated Union Lyrics, and singing by the brilliant Harmonic Glee Club. . . .IMPORTANT TO A GENEROUS PUBLIC. No charge is made by the speakers, singers and printers of the Grand Entertainment . . . ”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 March 1865.