PATRIOTIC SONGS |
The Battle Cry of Freedom | 1862, George Frederic Root, 1820-1895 |
Battle Hymn of the Republic | 1862, Julia Ward Howe |
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! | 1861, [The popular refrain] |
Dixie's Land (Dixie) | 1860, Daniel Decatur Emmett |
The Bonnie Blue Flag | 1861, Mrs. Annie Chambers-Ketchum Henry (Harry) Macarthy |
Maryland, My Marryland! | 1861, James Ryder Randall |
The Southrons' Chaunt of Defiance | 1861, Armand Edward Blackmar |
THE SOLDIERING LIFE |
We Are Coming Father Abra'am | 1862 James Sloan Gibbons Luther Orlando Emerson |
Marching Through Georgia | 1865, Henry Clay Work |
Who'll Save the Left? | 1863 R. Tompkins George Frederick Root, 1820-1895 |
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (or The Prisoner's Hope) | 1864, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895 |
Just Before the Battle, Mother | 1864, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895 |
The Soldier's Return | 1862 W. H. Morris John Rogers Thomas |
Tenting on the Old Campground | 1864, Walter Kittredge |
All Quiet Along the Potamac To-Night | 1863 Ethel Lynn Beers John Hill Hewitt |
The Grant Pill (or "Unconditional Surrender") | 1864 Harriet L. Castle James Cox Beckel |
O I'm a Good Old Rebel | unknown |
BATTLEFIELD DEATHS |
The Children of the Battle Field | 1864, James Gowdy Clark, 1830-1897 |
Comrades, I Am Dying! | 1864 Thomas Manahan B. Sontag |
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh | 1863, William Shakespeare Hays |
Little Major | 1862, Henry Clay Work |
The Dying Volunteer | 1861, G. Gumpert |
Bear Gently, So Gently, the Roughly Made Bier | 1864 Mrs. E. A. B. Mitchell Chr. Mathias |
DOMESTIC SCENES |
Can I Go Dearest Mother? | 1862, Bernard Covert |
Weeping, Sad and Lonely (or When This Cruel World Is Over) | 1862 Charles Carrol Sawyer Henry Tucker |
O Come You from the Battle-Field? | 1864, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895 |
When Johnny Comes Marching Home | 1863, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore |
The Vacant Chair (or We Shall Meet But We Shall Miss Him) | 1862, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895 |
Brave Boys Are They! | 1861, Henry Clay Work |
Mother Is the Battle Over? | n.d., Benedict E. Roefs |
Grafted into the Army | 1862, Henry Clay Work |
Jeff in Petticoats | 1865 George Cooper Henry Tucker |
EMANCIPATION SONGS |
The New Emancipation Song | 1864 R. A. T. Mrs. Parkhurst |
Glory! Glory! (or The Little Octoroon) | 1866, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895 |
Kingdom Coming | 1862, Henry Clay Work |
Sixty-Three Is the Jubilee | 1863 J. L. Greene D. A. French |
We Are Coming from the Cotton Fields | 1864 J. C---n J. C. Wallace |