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During the American Civil War, music played a prominent role on each side of the conflict, Union (the North) and Confederate (the South). On the battlefield, different instruments including bugles, drums, and fifes were played to issue marching orders or sometimes simply to boost the morale of one's fellow soldiers.
Pages in category "Songs of the American Civil War" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Songs Sung, Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource, 2003. ISBN 0060513047; Irwin Silber, Songs of the Civil War Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Dover, 1995. Silverman, Jerry (April 15, 2011). Ballads and Songs of the Civil War.
After Union forces began using "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as a rallying song in 1861, Halphim wrote "God Save The South" to inspire Confederate soldiers with the thought that God would be with them. [2] It was the first song published in the Confederate States—specifically, in New Orleans, Louisiana—since the Ordinance of Secession. [1]
The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '67, —Project Gutenberg. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - A Civil War Song Marches On; MIDI and description; Library of Congress copy, For Bales; The short film A NATION SINGS (1963) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
The Confederacy's flag at the end of the American Civil War "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel", also called "The Good Old Rebel", is a pro-Confederate folk song and rebel song commonly attributed to Major James Innes Randolph. It was initially created by Randolph as a poem before evolving into an oral folk song and was only published in definitive written ...
Glory, Hallelujah: Civil War Songs and Hymns, Stoughton: PineTree Press, 2012. Jackson, Popular Songs of Nineteenth-Century America, note on "Battle Hymn of the Republic", pp. 263–64. McWhirter, Christian. Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ISBN 1469613670.
The poem honors the famed Confederate Army officer Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862; [1] however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate ...