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"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" (also known as Tenting Tonight) was a popular song during the American Civil War.A particular favorite of enlisted men in the Union army, it was written in 1863 by Walter Kittredge and first performed in that year at Old High Rock, Lynn, Massachusetts.
Kittredge had been drafted into the American Civil War in 1862 but failed his physical; his family paid for a substitute. Soon after he composed his most famous song, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, also known as "Tenting Tonight", which was sung by both sides of the war and is known throughout the world. Kittredge composed it in a single night ...
Pages in category "Songs of the American Civil War" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. ... Tenting on the Old Camp Ground; Tramp! Tramp!
The 2nd South Carolina String Band was a band of Civil War re-enactors who recreate American popular music of the 1800s with authentic instruments and in period style. The group claims to "perform Civil War music as authentically as possible . . . as it truly sounded to the soldiers of the Civil War."
The "Battle Cry of Freedom", also known as "Rally 'Round the Flag", is a song written in 1862 by American composer George Frederick Root (1820–1895) during the American Civil War. A patriotic song advocating the causes of Unionism and abolitionism , it became so popular that composer H. L. Schreiner and lyricist W. H. Barnes adapted it for ...
Today, “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke and “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye remain relevant to Black America.
[10] The song was also included in a collection of Union Army songs published in New York in 1864. [11] Irwin Silber, editor of Sing Out! from 1951 to 1967, introduced the song to a mid-20th-century audience in his Songs of the Civil War, published in 1960 in conjunction with the Civil War Centennial observance from 1961 to 1965. Silber thought ...
Anti-war Songs a website collecting thousands of antiwar songs from all over the world; Folk&More: Songbook & Tabs a growing collection of chords, tabs, and lyrics of anti-war songs from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; The page contains an interview with Judy Small the writer and composer of Mothers, Daughters, Wives.