Music as Poetry

At < http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/music/index.html >., accessed 3/25/2005, you can read the lyrics and hear the music for approximately 40 Union songs, 40 Confederate songs, and 20 popular songs of the day, compiled by Kathie Watson. The titles are listed in alphabetical order in the three categories.

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Union

"Always Stand on the Union Side"      "Battle Cry of Freedom"

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"      "Faded Coat of Blue"                         

AND the ever-popular- "Hard Tack, Come Again No More ”

Confederate

"Dixie, The Land of King Cotton"      "Everybody's Dixie"

"God Save the South"        "Goober Peas"

"Good Ol' Rebel Soldier"        "Stonewall Jackson's Way"                   

"Southern Wagon"          "Stonewall Jackson's Way"

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"    "When This Cruel War Is Over"

"Yellow Rose of Texas"

Popular Songs of the Day

"Beautiful Dreamer"          "Camptown Races"

"Hard Times, Come Again No More"    "Home, Sweet Home"

"My Old Kentucky Home"        "Oh! Susanna"

"Old Black Joe"          "Old Folks at Home"

"Polly Wolly Doodle"

Note that several of the popular tunes were composed by Stephen Foster, a composer with local ties to Bradford County . Do you recognize any of the songs?