Southern War Songs: Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY W. L. FAGAN
ILLUSTRATED.
New York M. T. RICHARDSON & CO. 1890.
Copyrighted BY M. T. RICHARDSON. 1889.
The war songs of the South are a part of the history of the Lost Cause. They are necessary to the impartial historian in forming a correct estimate of the animus of the Southern people.
Emotional literature is always a correct exponent of public sentiment, and these songs index the passionate sincerity of the South at the time they were written.
Poetic merit is not claimed for all of them; still each one embodies either a fact or a principle. Written in an era of war, when the public mind was thoroughly aroused, some may now appear harsh and vindictive. Eight millions of people read and sang them. This fact alone warrants their collection and preservation.
A greater number of the songs have been gathered from Southern newspapers. The task has been laborious, but still a labor of love, as no work of this kind has before been offered to the public.
Thanks are due Mr. Henri Wehrman, of New Orleans, for permission to use valuable copyrights, also to the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston; A. E. Blackmar, New Orleans; and J. C. Schreiner, Savannah, Ga. Mr. G. N. Galloway, Philadelphia, has given material assistance.
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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
“ALLONS ENFANS.”
“THE SOUTHERN CROSS.”
THE STAR OF THE WEST.
THE SOUTHRON’S CHANT OF DEFIANCE.
THE DUTCH VOLUNTEER.
SOUTHERN SONG OF FREEDOM.
“CALL ALL! CALL ALL!”
ANOTHER YANKEE DOODLE.
“YE MEN OF ALABAMA!”
1776-1861.
WOULD’ST THOU HAVE ME LOVE THEE?
THAT BUGLER;
ADDRESS OF THE WOMEN TO THE SOUTHERN TROOPS.
RALLYING SONG OF THE VIRGINIANS.
POP GOES THE WEASEL.
THE MOTHER’S FAREWELL.
WE SWEAR.
FREEDOM’S NEW BANNER.
THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG.
“OH, HE’S NOTHING BUT A SOLDIER.”
SOUTHERN WAR-CRY.
DIXIE’S LAND.
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT.-COL. CH. B. DREUX.
BULL RUN.
HURRAH!
GATHERING SONG.
A SOUTHERN SONG.
A CONFEDERATE OFFICER TO HIS LADY LOVE.
THE SOUTHERN MARSEILLAISE.
A SOUTHERN GATHERING SONG.
CONFEDERATE LAND.
WE’LL BE FREE IN MARYLAND.
THE SOUTHRON’S WAR-SONG.
KNITTING FOR THE SOLDIERS.
PATRIOTIC SONG.
OUR BRAVES IN VIRGINIA.
BATTLE SONG OF THE INVADED.
THE SONG OF THE SNOW.
A NEW RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
WAR SONG.
ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TO-NIGHT.
“INDEPENDENCE DAY.”
FLIGHT OF DOODLES.
LAND OF KING COTTON.
THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY.
REBEL IS A SACRED NAME.
THE YOUNG VOLUNTEER.
GOOBER PEAS.
OUR COUNTRY’S CALL.
CANNON SONG.
CHIVALROUS C. S. A.
NORTH CAROLINA’S WAR SONG.
THE HOMESPUN DRESS.
THE BANNER SONG.
THE VOLUNTEER.
READING THE LIST.
THE BARS AND STARS.
WAR SONG.
THE SOUTHERN FLAG.
THE STARS AND THE BARS.
CONFEDERATE SONG.
LEE AT THE WILDERNESS.
A SOUTHERN SONG.
THE TEXAN MARSEILLAISE.
THE BATTLE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
SONG FOR THE SOUTH.
SONG OF THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER.
THE DYING SOLDIER BOY.
THE SOUTHERN BANNER.
O, JOHNNY BULL, MY JO JOHN.
MORGAN’S WAR-SONG.
FOR BALES.
THE SONG OF THE SOUTH.
LAND OF THE SOUTH.
LADIES, TO THE HOSPITAL!
TO THE DAVIS GUARD.
WAR SONG.
THE SOUTH FOR ME.
CAROLINA.
DO THEY MISS ME IN THE TRENCHES?
BOYS! KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY.
BAYOU CITY GUARDS’ SONG.
THE COUNTERSIGN.
THE DARLINGS AT HOME.
AT FORT PILLOW.
DUTY AND DEFIANCE.
BAYOU CITY GUARDS’ DIXIE.
DE COTTON DOWN IN DIXIE.
THE SOLDIER’S MISSION.
THE SOUTH OUR COUNTRY.
I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE’S LAND.
CAMPAIGN BALLAD.
OUR GLORIOUS FLAG.
THE HOUR BEFORE EXECUTION.
THE BLACK FLAG.
BANKS’ SKEDADDLE.
AWAKE! TO ARMS IN TEXAS!
THE CAPTURE OF SEVENTEEN OF COMPANY H, FOURTH TEXAS CAVALRY.
ALABAMA.
IMOGEN.
AN OLD TEXAN’S APPEAL.
ARISE! YE SONS OF FREE-BORN SIRES!
GAY AND HAPPY.
BAYLOR’S PARTISAN RANGERS.
THE HORSE MARINES AT GALVESTON.
I’M THINKING OF THE SOLDIER.
THE BATTLE OF GALVESTON.
DEATH OF GEN. ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON.
GOD BLESS OUR SOUTHERN LAND.
SOUTHERN BATTLE SONG.
BOMBARDMENT AND BATTLES OF GALVESTON.
GENERAL TOM GREEN.
HARD TIMES!
THE FLAG OF THE SOUTHLAND
ON TO GLORY.
STONEWALL JACKSON’S WAY.
TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF MAJ.-GEN. TOM GREEN.
HOOD’S OLD BRIGADE.
THE BATTLE SONG OF THE SOUTH.
MY HEART’S IN MISSISSIPPI.
THE FUNERAL OF ALBERT SYDNEY JOHNSTON.
THE CONTRABAND.
SONG OF HOOKER’S PICKET.
NO SURRENDER.
A SOUTHERN WOMAN’S SONG.
GENERAL LEE AT THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS.
MY NOBLE WARRIOR, COME!
SONG OF THE PRIVATEER
HOOD’S TEXAS BRIGADE.
SWEETHEARTS AND THE WAR.
JACKSON’S RESIGNATION.
WE LEFT HIM ON THE FIELD.
MOTHER! IS THE BATTLE OVER?
A NORTH CAROLINA CALL TO ARMS.
DIXIE.
BATTLE SONG.
OVER THE RIVER.
MORGAN’S WAR SONG.
THE SONG OF THE EXILE.
NATIONAL HYMN.
OVER THE RIVER.
PRIVATE MAGUIRE.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
SOUTHERN SONG.
THE BAND IN THE PINES.
MY WARRIOR BOY.
THE REBEL BAND.
THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY.
THE CAVALIER’S GLEE.
SONG.
WE CONQUER OR DIE.
GOD WILL DEFEND THE RIGHT.
RICHMOND ON THE JAMES;
RICHMOND IS A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.
THE SOUTHRON’S WATCHWORD.
THERE’S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET.
YOU ARE GOING TO THE WARS, WILLIE BOY!
MY MARYLAND.
REBEL TOASTS; OR, DRINK IT DOWN!
THE GALLANT GIRL THAT SMOTE THE DASTARD TORY, OH!
THREE CHEERS FOR OUR JACK MORGAN.
PRAY, MAIDEN, PRAY!
THE SOLDIER’S SUIT OF GRAY.
SONG OF THE TEXAS RANGERS.
THE OFFICER’S FUNERAL.
THE SOLDIER’S DEATH.
I REMEMBER THE HOUR WHEN SADLY WE PARTED.
THE NAVASOTA VOLUNTEERS.
THE SOLDIER’S DREAM.
THE OFFICERS OF DIXIE.
THE SENTINEL’S DREAM OF HOME.
CAMP DOUGLAS BY THE LAKE.
MISSOURI.
IN MEMORIAM.
YANKEE VANDALS.
RIDING A RAID.
THE TOAST OF MORGAN’S MEN.
TRUE HEART SOUTHRONS.
THE SOLDIER’S AMEN.
HERE’S YOUR MULE.
SABINE PASS.
SHORT RATIONS; OR, THE CORN-FED ARMY.
THE SOLDIER’S FAREWELL.
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH HILL.
STONEWALL’S REQUIEM.
LITTLE GIFFIN.
STUART.
ONLY A SOLDIER.
WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME.
THE DRUMMER BOY OF SHILOH.
OLD STONEWALL.
THE SOUTH;
THE POOR SOLDIER!
THE BONNIE WHITE FLAG;
BOMBARDMENT OF VICKSBURG.
DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
THE SOUTHERN CAPTIVE.
THE VOLUNTEER; OR, IT IS MY COUNTRY’S CALL.
DEAR MOTHER, I’VE COME HOME TO DIE.
POLK.
THE REBEL’S DREAM.
PRO MEMORA.
WEARIN’ OF THE GRAY.
THE FADED GRAY JACKET.
I’M A GOOD OLD REBEL.
TRUE TO THE GRAY.
WE KNOW THAT WE WERE REBELS; OR, WHY CAN WE NOT BE BROTHERS?
WEARING OF THE GRAY.
THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE.
OFF WITH YOUR GRAY SUITS, BOYS!
THE CONQUERED BANNER.
FOLD IT UP CAREFULLY.
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