Allons Enfants: The Southern Marseillaise: Air “Marseillaise.” By A. E. Blackmar, New Orleans, 1861. (C. S. B.)
[“This may be called the rallying song of the Confederacy. Composed early in 1861, it was sung throughout the South while the soldiers were hurried to Virginia with this, the grandest of martial airs, as a benediction.”]
“Sons of the South, awake to glory,
A thousand voices bid you rise”—
The American Star: Air “Humors of Glen.” Published by Louis Bonsai, Baltimore and Frederic Streets, Baltimore. (R. B. B. p. 7)
“Come, striking the bold anthem, the war dogs are howling,
Already they eagerly snuff up their prey”—
The Angel of the Church: By W. Gilmore Simms. January, 1864. (W. G. S.)
“Aye, strike with sacrilegious aim
The temple of the living God;”—