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To the Officers and Members of the Presidents Mounted Guard:
This sheet music cover shows four officers with plumed hats on horseback in front of the White House. The President's Mounted Quickstep polka honored Samuel Owen's Independent Company of Cavalry, a DC militia company founded in 1853. The unit guarded the Capitol during the first months of the Civil War. They did not, however, dress as pictured.
Lithograph by Sarony for Hilbus & Hitz, New York, ca 1850. |