Songs of the War Between the States

[Art]

I was thinking about the music of that war. I thought I would share some of it. These are the long versions of these tunes. Included are two versions of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." The original and a post war one made popular by Mitch Miller.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn9Sr5LMNb4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3WAhbulFs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9d5uPg9vM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIsXLyZcWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86gQVzVoPEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1glH29rvHw

When Judy Garland did this version of The Battle Hymn of the Republic she was near the end of her life, despite her body being ravaged by drugs and alcohol she was still a prodigious talent. The above version is my all time favorite of this classic American Hymn.

Any additions are welcome.

[Allen]

The Dixie's Land song was written for the minstrel stage by Daniel Decatur Emmett in New York City. The song was so popular in the South that it became generally accepted as the rallying song of the Confederacy.

Abraham Lincoln loved the song.

[fguffey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rykzu_HiQcY

I asked about Brandon, many years ago I asked about Dixie, after that I did not believe anyone live today knew where Dixie was located.

I found an old picture frame with a page of music behind the picture, and I wondered, Were there two Dixies?

F. Guffey

[Art]

If you mean the song there were multiple versions whose popularity depended on where you lived and which side you were on.

If you mean the place, to most it meant the states of the old Confederacy but the title refers to the Mason Dixon Line. The land south of the Mason Dixon Line which was originally a boundry between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Eventually it was extended to include not only the states of the old Confederacy but Kentucky, a border state and Maryland, a Union State.

I know my mother (born 1912) a child of the Confederacy, thought of Dixie as the 11 states of the old Confederacy and that had been the conclusion for more that 125 years.

That being that, I think, there may have well been two "Dixies," and ante bellum Dixie and a post bellum Dixie.

[Vern Humphrey]

In Colonial times, there was a dispute over the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. This was a government matter, so there had to be a boondoggle. Surveyors were hired from England to survey the line (like there were no surveyors in America!) It was such a boondoggle that they even shipped marker stones over from England (like there were no rocks in America!)

The surveyors names were Mason and Dixon, and the line they surveyed was called the Mason-Dixon Line. If you lived south of the line, you lived in Dixie. If you lived north of the line, you lived in Macey.

There was a song:

I wish I was in the land of Macey
Old times there were really spacey
Look away, look away
Maceyland

[barretcreek]

Maryland was a Copperhead state, held in the Union by threat of force. The state song, Maryland My Maryland (sung to Oh Tannenbaum) is decidedly anti Union. I'll link it.
Federal Hill, on the south side of Baltimore Harbor, had artillery in place to level the port facilities. Don't recall if there are any still there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland,_My_Maryland

[Vern Humphrey]

There were two First Maryland regiments -- one Union and one Confederate. They fought each other in the Shenandoah Valley. (The Confederates won.)

[Art]

I was reminded that in the spirit of political correctness in the 1930s a verse missing from the version of "John Browns Body" in the OP:

"We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree."

Since "John Brown's Body" was a marching song verses were constantly being added. Some off color enough by 1860's standards they were omitted in civilian performances.

[barretcreek]

Thank you, Art.

Watching Judy Garland helps me understand who SanFran Nan is channeling, right down to the 1.75L breakfast drink.

[Johnny P]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i1s8FKoku8

[togor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3H4JJ-8Bg

[lyman]

I was reminded that in the spirit of political correctness in the 1930s a verse missing from the version of "John Browns Body" in the OP:

"We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree."

Since "John Brown's Body" was a marching song verses were constantly being added. Some off color enough by 1860's standards they were omitted in civilian performances.

my maternal great grandfather's farm,, now owned by a 2nd cousin, was a stopping point for John Brown when he was in VA,

supposedly the pear tree that was there (not sure if it still lives,, been 40+ yrs since I have been on that farm) was planted by him

as a side, plumbing was added sometime in the 20's or earlier,
no well, the house was spring fed,
small house built over an active spring the was feed into an open tank (basically a concrete trough ) and pumped to the house