The songs in this volume are passports back in time to the noise of battle, the pain of separation and loss, and the shackles of slavery. It includes 25 songs of the union and the confederacy, matching Tom Glazer's recorded album A Treasure Of Civil War Songs, and includes historical not...
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 ...
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...
Presents information on the creation of the poem, 'My Maryland,' by professor of English literature, James Ryder Randall, while focusing on the fact that it later became the 'Marseillaise' of the Confederacy. Details on Randall's inspiration; Description of the battle between Massachusetts troops...
Presents information on the creation of the poem, `My Maryland,' by professor of English literature, James Ryder Randall, while focusing on the fact that it later became the `Marseillaise' of the Confederacy. Details on Randall's inspiration; Description of the battle between Massachusetts troops...
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 minstrel review, soon became the anthem of the Confedera...
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...