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Jesse B. Gordon of Richwood, Ohio served in Company C of the 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) and Company A of the Mississippi Marine Brigade during the Civil War and compiled this Civil War song book. The book contains only the words to the…

The sheet music for Benjamin Russel Hanby's song "Darling Nelly Gray" was published in 1882 as one in a series of World Renowned Plantation Songs. Although they were published separately and are not included here, the cover page lists other songs in…

Dixie for the Union consists of pro-Northern lyrics written to the tune of the popular song Dixie. The lyrics compare the struggle to preserve the Union with the American's fight against British oppression during the Revolutionary War. The word…

"Grab A Root"
By Sylvester Rader, 90th OVI, Co. I

While soldiering in the Army of the Cumberland,
Some Johnnies to shoot,
We stubbed our toe, fell down in the mud,
And the boys, hollowed, "Grab a Root!"

The origin of the word we never…

THREE YEARS IN DIXIE
BY HIRAM S. BROWN, CO. E.
CROOKS, KY.

I composed the following about the close of the war. I used to sing it, and then after a few years I held the "Little Browns" on my knee and sang it to them. I do not claim to be a…