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Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
re are you going, soldiers, With banner, gun and sword? We're marching south to Canaan To battle for the Lord. What Captain leads your armies Along the rebel coasts? The mighty One of Israel, His name is Lord of Hosts. Chorus- To Canaan, to Canaan, The Lord has led us forth, To blow before the heathen walls The trumpets of the North. Dixie: the original version Dixie was first written as a walk-a-round by an Ohioan, Dan Emmet, and was first sung in Dan Bryant's minstrel show on Broadway, New York, shortly before the war. It came into martial usage by accident and its stirring strains inspired the regiments on many a battlefield. Curiously enough it was adapted to patriotic words on both sides and remained popular with North and South alike after the struggle was over. Abraham Lincoln loved the tune and considered the fact that it was truly representative of the land of cotton far more important than its lack of adherence to the strict laws of technical harmony. Twenty-two ve
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
. We are coming, father Abraham James Sloan gibbons This song was written in 1862 just after Lincoln had issued his call for 300,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the army. It was first printed in the evening post, July 16, 1862 and was afterwards sung by the famous Hutchinson family. Lincoln listened with bowed head to the song at the white House one summer morning in 1864. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore; We leave our ploughs and workshops, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a single tear; We dare not look behind us, but steadfastly before: We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more! Chorus– We are coming, we are coming, our Union to restore: We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. You have called us, and we're coming, by Richmond's bloody tide
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
a scene of 1864 at the quiet country-place to which Admiral Semmes of the Confederate warship, Alabama, and his chief executive officer, Captain Kell, retired for rest and recuperation after the losbe a Ranger and follow Wharton's cry! And battle for his country, and, if needs be, die? The Alabama Words by E. King music by F. W. Rasier While the greater number of naval war songs belongand also the grouping around the drum. sea-song was dedicated to gallant Admiral Semmes of the Alabama and to the officers and seamen of the C. S. Navy. The wind blows off yon rocky shore, Boys, set we go, Our motto—‘No surrender.’ Chorus— Then sling the bowl, drink every soul A toast to the Alabama, Whate'er our lot, through storm or shot, Here's success to the Alabama. The Southern soldieAlabama. The Southern soldier boy Air: the boy with the Auburn hair. as sung by Miss Sallie Partington, in the Virginia Cavalier, Richmond, Va., 1863. composed by Captain G. W. Alexander. the sentiments of this so
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 15
points before and shows a bright tomorrow, Let us forget the darkness of today: Then farewell, England, much as we may love thee, We'll dry the tears that we have shed before; We'll not weep to sail in search of fortune; Then farewell, England, farewell forevermore. Chorus— Then cheer, boys, cheer! for England, Mother England. Cheer boys, cheer for the willing strong right hand; Cheer, boys,England, Mother England. Cheer boys, cheer for the willing strong right hand; Cheer, boys, cheer! there's wealth in honest labor; Cheer, boys, cheer for the new and happy land. To Canaan This is an example of the many spontaneous lyrics sung to old tunes,—lyrics that were composeEngland. Cheer boys, cheer for the willing strong right hand; Cheer, boys, cheer! there's wealth in honest labor; Cheer, boys, cheer for the new and happy land. To Canaan This is an example of the many spontaneous lyrics sung to old tunes,—lyrics that were composed on the spur of occasions and soon afterwards consigned to oblivion. Where are you going, soldiers, With banner, gun and sword? We're marching south to Canaan To battle for the Lord. What Captain leoes mit regimentals, To schlauch dem voes of Liberty, Like dem old Continentals, Vot fights mit England long ago, To save der Yankee Eagle; Und now I gets my soldier clothes; I'm going to fight mit S<
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ft the maid, a lingering farewell taking, Her sighs and tears my steps delay'd, I thought her heart was breaking; In hurried words her name I bless'd, I breathed the vows that bind me, And to my heart in anguish press'd the girl I left behind me. Then to the East we bore away, to win a name in story, And there where dawns the sun of day, there dawns our sun of glory; Both blazed in noon on Alma's height, where in the post assign'd me, I shar'd the glory of that fight, Sweet Girl I Left Behind Me. One I left there A Southern song of sentiment that equaled Lorena in popularity during the war. 1Soft blows the breath of morning In my own valley fair, For it's there the opening roses With fragrance scent the air, With fragrance scent the air. And with perfume fill the air, But the breath of one I left there Is sweeter far to me. 1Soft fall the dews of evening Around our valley bowers; And they glisten on the grass plots And tremble on the flowers, And tremble on the flowers Lik
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
Second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. It lost during service eleven officers and sixty-two men killed and mortally wounded and one officer and twenty-eight enlisted men by disease. Notwithstanding, many of these men were among the first to enlist again when Lincoln issued his call for 300,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the army, a call that gave rise to the famous song of that year, We're coming father Abraham, three hundred thousand strong. here they are at Harper's Ferry in 1862 enjoying the luxury of a visit from a lady whose light gown is attractively spread out over her ample hoop-skirt at the right of the picture. It is interesting to study the formal manner in which the men are holding their rifles, and also the grouping around the drum. sea-song was dedicated to gallant Admiral Semmes of the Alabama and to the officers and seamen of the C. S. Navy. The wind blows off yon rocky shore, Boys, set your sails all free: And soon the booming cannon's ro
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ers gone before, Shouting the battlecry of freedom. And we'll fill the vacant ranks with a million freemen more, Shouting the battlecry of freedom. Marching through Georgia Henry Clay Work Written in honor of Sherman's famous march from Atlanta to the sea. Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song— Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along— Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong, While we were marching through Georgia. Chorus— ‘Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee, Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!’ So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia. How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound! How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found! How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground, While we were marching through Georgia. The Southern Marseillaise A. E. Blackmar, 1861 This was the rallying song of the Confederacy. It was sung throughout the Sou
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
he quaint style of hair-dressing that ruled in 1864, in flowered skirt and ‘Garibaldi blouse,’ this beautiful woman, the wife of a Federal army officer, was photographed in front of the winter quarters of Captain John R. Coxe, in February, at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station. She was even then looking at her soldier husband, who sat near her in his ‘suit of blue,’ or perhaps thinking of the three years of terrific fighting that had passed. Shiloh, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg-all of these had been fought and the toll of the ‘cruel war’ was not yet complete. Negro spirituals Some of the negro chants or spirituals are particularly interesting because of their direct connection with the incidents of the Civil War. Their sources were generally obscure; their origin seeming to be either by gradual accretion or by an almost unconscious process of composition. Colonel T. W. Higginson told the story of the b
Brandy Station (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
n his grave, No master does he fear. Chorus— The poor old slave has gone to rest, We know that he is free; Disturb him not but let him rest, Way down in Tennessee. When this cruel war is over With the quaint style of hair-dressing that ruled in 1864, in flowered skirt and ‘Garibaldi blouse,’ this beautiful woman, the wife of a Federal army officer, was photographed in front of the winter quarters of Captain John R. Coxe, in February, at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Brandy Station. She was even then looking at her soldier husband, who sat near her in his ‘suit of blue,’ or perhaps thinking of the three years of terrific fighting that had passed. Shiloh, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg-all of these had been fought and the toll of the ‘cruel war’ was not yet complete. Negro spirituals Some of the negro chants or spirituals are particularly interesting because of their direct connection with the incidents of the
Hilton Head (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ol. Trowbridge learned that it was first sung on the occasion when General Beauregard gathered the slaves from the Port royal Islands to build fortifications at Hilton head and Bay Point. No more peck oa corn for me, No more, no more; No more peck oa corn for me, Many tousand go. No more driver's lash for me, No more, no more; No mn my head, And rolly in my Jesus arm; In dat mornina all day, In dat mornina all day, In dat mornina all day, When Jesus de Christ been born. Meet, O lord: Hilton head in 1861—the time and place of this negro song's creation This photograph appears here by a curious coincidence. With the presentation of the spiritual that commemorates an event of the war connected with the Confederate General Drayton, there has come to light a photograph of his home on Hilton Head in 1861. Through these gates, watched by loving eyes, he rode on the milk-white horse, the morning of the engagement at Bay Point. Mr. W. F. Allen, who collected many slave-songs, was tol
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