MUSIC SPECIAL: Songs of the Civil War

In which we celebrate our one-hundreth episode with a music special featuring over twenty songs that were popular during the Civil War.

• Midnight On the Water— Spiritwood Northwoods Ensemble (Superior Solitude)
• Dixie’s Land—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Southern Soldier)
• The Bonnie Blue Flag—2^nd South Carolina String Band (In High Cotton)
• Maryland, My Maryland—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 1)
• Lorena—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
• Join the Cavalry—Hardtack & Harmony (Call to Arms)
• Goober Peas—Hardtack & Harmony (Call to Arms)
• Short Rations—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 4)
• Hard Crackers Come Again No More—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Dulcem Melodies)
• Weeping, Sad and Lonely—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 1)
• Just Before the Battle, Mother—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 2)
• All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 1)
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
• Home, Sweet Home—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Strike the Tent)
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp—Tom Glazer (A Treasury of Civil War Songs Sung by Tom Glazer)
• Tenting on the Old Camp Ground—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
• Nearer My God to Thee—Chip Mergott (Hymns for the Acoustic Guitar)
• Go Down Moses—Paul Robeson (Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939)
• Kingdom Coming—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Lightning in a Jar)
• My Country Tis of Thee—United States Air Force Heritage of America Band
• John Brown’s Body—Tom Glazer (A Treasury of Civil War Songs Sung by Tom Glazer)
• The Battle Hymn of the Republic—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 2)
• The Battle Cry of Freedom—2^nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
• We Are Coming Father Abraham, 300,000 More—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 1)
• Marching Through Georgia—Hardtack & Harmony (Call to Arms)
• Taps—United States Marine Band
• Midnight On the Water—Spiritwood Northwoods Ensemble (Superior Solitude)

Our book recommendation for this episode is Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War by Christian McWhirter.

“No historian has done more than Christian McWhirter to open our ears to Civil War music as a powerful expression of political action. Neither side, as McWhirter brilliantly reveals, was just ‘whistling Dixie’ in camp or on the battlefield.” ~ Peter S. Carmichael

Listen to Episode 100: MusicSpecial