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Civil War Podcast, Episode 100

MUSIC SPECIAL: Songs of the Civil War

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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—2nd South Carolina String Band (Southern Soldier)
  • The Bonnie Blue Flag—2nd South Carolina String Band (In High Cotton)
  • Maryland, My Maryland—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 1)
  • Lorena—2nd 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—2nd 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—2nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
  • Home, Sweet Home—2nd 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—2nd 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—2nd 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—2nd 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)
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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

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Listen to Episode 100: MusicSpecial