First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.
Posting history, in reverse order
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It would be interesting to see Confederate newspaper reports at the same time, although I would be surprised to see any such archives survived the war.
bkmk
Not one of the battles referenced by Foster, but reminds me none-the-less of this song:
Was my brother in the battle when the noble Highland host
Were so wrongfully outnumbered on the Carolina coast?
Did he struggle for the Union ‘mid the thunder and the rain,
Till he fell among the brave on a bleak Virginia plain?
Oh, I’m sure that he was dauntless and his courage ne’er would lag
While contending for the honor of our dear and cherished flag.
...
Was my brother in the battle when the flag of Erin came
To the rescue of our banner and protection of our fame,
While the fleet from off the waters poured out terror and dismay
Till the bold and erring foe fell like leaves on Autumn day?
My favorite version is the McGarrigle one. I wanted to link it, but my browser settings don’t do youknowwhotube, and I wouldn’t want to link to a poor version, or one that is too easily trackable (for instance I just saw one with 400ish views, ergo it might be easy to determine that a spike in viewers was due to thi post). It can be found on the Songs of the Civil War compilation I found recently. Has songs from both sides and some on neither sort of. This one is a Yankee tune, but a picture of a way of looking at life we have lost, I think.