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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 0, credited to Bennington, VT
Unit(s): Civilian
Service: Confederate music publisher in New Orleans and Augusta, GA
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VITALS
Birth: 05/30/1826, Bennington, VT
Death: 10/28/1888
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA
Marker/Plot: Blackmar Tomb
Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 83759431
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Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Not found
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
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Remarks: None
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BURIAL:
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Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA
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Armand Edward Blackmar
Armand Edward Blackmar was born in Bennington, Vermont May 30, 1826. He attended Western Reserve College in Ohio. From 1852 to 1855 he was professor of music at Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana. In 1858 he and his brother H.C. Blackmar started a music publishing company in Vicksburg, Mississippi. By 1860 they had moved to New Orleans, where they remained until at least 1882, except for a short period of time from 1862 to 1865 when his brother moved the operation to Augusta, Georgia, because Armand had been fined and imprisoned by General Ben Butler for publishing 'seditious' music.
He was a very good violinist and pianist, a chess expert, and a charter member of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club of New Orleans. Armand is listed in the "Biographical Dictionary of American Music. By Charles Eugene Claghorn. West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Co., 1973."
Some of the music he published shows his political leanings:Dixie war song (1861)
God and our rights (1861)
Short rations (1864)
Southern Marseillaise (1861/2)
The Southrons' Chaunt of defiance (1861)
The Beauregard Manassas quick-step (1861)
Those dark eyes. Favorite ballads of the South (1865/8)
Washington artillery polka march (1864)
You can never win us back; a patriotic song (1864)Even more revealing of his feelings can be found in the name of his first child, born in 1861, Louisiana Rebel Blackmar.
Links:
The Camp Jester, or, Amusement for the Mess: Electronic Edition.
More American Civil War Music
examples of some of his music
A chess player of some note
See a game played by him in France in 1882
Sources:
E. Lawrence Abel, "Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865," (Stackpole Books, 1999)
Richard Crawford, "The Civil War Songbook: Complete Original Sheet Music for 37 Songs," (Courier Dover Publications, 1995)
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