[5] This thrilling song was circulated sub rosa in New Orleans, and at times almost openly. Its bold and defiant tone shows it to have been written by one who must have suffered greatly at the hands of Butler.
[6] The Cotton Supply Association, of Manchester, England.
[7] A touching incident occurred in Montgomery at the beginning of the war. A soldier met a lovely and refined lady in the street, and feeling that in such times we are all sisters and brothers, and wishing to do homage to such beauty, he touched his hat and said: “Lady, I’m going to fight for you.” “Sir,” she instantly replied, “I am going to pray for you.”
[8] Constitutional Liberty against Oppression—a “Cause” decided many times in the Old World, yet to be taught in the New.
[9] The Memphis Appeal published the following:—“On yesterday all the cotton in Memphis was burned. Probably not less than 300,000 bales have been burned in the last three days in West Tennessee and North Mississippi.”
[10] Capt. Riley commanded a battery composed of Irishmen from North Carolina, and was nearly always attached to Hood’s Brigade. The “swarthy old hounds” refer to his Napoleon guns.
[11] In commemoration of Gen. J. B. Gordon’s charge against Hancock’s corps at Spotsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864.
[12] Fremont, “the path-finder.”
[13] Battle of Cedar Run.
[14] Sung by Harry McCarthy, in his “Personation Concerts,” in all the principal towns of the Confederacy.