Father Ryan, the poet laureate of The Confederacy, wrote a moving poem after the war about the beloved flag of The Confederate States of America. Theodore von Lahache wrote this stirring orchestral music for the poem known as “The Conquered Banner”. I played all the instruments, performed ...
Abraham Lincoln was president of the 24 states of the Union, and Jefferson Davis was president of the 11 states of the Confederacy. Ford attended a one-room school for eight years when he was not helping his father with the harvest. At age 16 he walked to Detroit to find work in its ...
His importance to the Union cause is celebrated in musical spoof called “Billy Barlow”; The soldiers gleefully sang of the ultimate demise of the Confederacy in “Hard Times in Dixie”; There were many versions of “Dixie” composed during the war. One of the more popular versions sung in...
Music took on great cultural significance during the Civil War as both sides used song to express their views about the conflict. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “John Brown’s Body” gave voice to the Union cause while “Dixie,” conceived and originally performed as part of a m...
the only American member of the Band. The song details the experience of a poor white southerner named Virgil Kane as the Civil War comes to a bloody end around him. "By May the 10th, Richmond had fell," Helm sings in reference to the main capital of the Confederacy, though the Virgin...
His importance to the Union cause is celebrated in musical spoof called “Billy Barlow”; The soldiers gleefully sang of the ultimate demise of the Confederacy in “Hard Times in Dixie”; There were many versions of “Dixie” composed during the war. One of the more popular versions sung in...