“Many Thousand Gone”— Reflections on the American Civil War 

Flagship Union and Confederacy songs: The Battle Cry of Freedom (George F. Root, 1862); 

The Bonnie Blue Flag (words: Harry McCarthy, music: Irish trad., 1861)

Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Collins Foster, 1862)

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (African-American spiritual)

Rail Splitters Polka (A. Neuman, ca. 1860)

For the Dear Old Flag, I Die (words: George Cooper, music: Stephen Collins Foster, 1862)

Union recruiting song: Abraham’s Daughter (Septimus Winner, 19th c.); Mill-Town Maid (Ryan’s Collection 1050 Reels & Jigs, 19th c.)

Dixie (attributed to Dan Emmett, Ohio; now attributed to )

Little Carrie’s Favorite Gallop (Howe ballroom manual, 1859)

Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (Irish lament)

Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (Walter Kittredge, 1864) 

Two spirituals from Slave Songs of the US, 1867, by Wm. Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, Charles Pickard Ware: Many Thousand Gone (No More Auction Block for Me); The Good Old Way

August (Pete Cooper, 20th century)

Marching through Georgia (Henry Clay Work, 1865)

I Hear(d) from Heaven Today (Port Royal Island) (from Slave Songs of the US, 1867)

All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight (words: Ethel Lynn Beers, 1861; music: John Hill Hewitt, 1863)

Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (African-American spiritual)