War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy

for my husband because he said it was the best book ever I bought this for my husband because he said it was the best book ever. He used to have it but loaned it to a friend who never returned it. He loves it cause it has true civil war hymns in it. I wish it had a little more It's in very good shape. It's thick and has a lot of songs, poems, and sheet music. It's a fine book overall, but it's missing some songs that I would have loved to see in it. 'Rose of Alabamy' and 'I'm a Good Ol' Rebel' are two of my favorites, and I was sad to see that they weren't included.. WAC said Five Stars. Great source for WBTS literature.

These songs and poems belong to the Nation. Wharton D.D. It is over now; we are more united than ever and shall never fall out with each other again. But if you wish to find the hearts of the people you will hear it in their songs. No North, no South, no East, no West, but one and inseparable, now and forever. Such poems and songs are sparks and flames from the fires of war, and high literary merit must not be expected. It has been a delightful task to me in the past year to collect from all q! uarters of the South these songs and poems, and so to rescue from oblivion the productions which are dear to every Southern heart and home. Although our friends in the North will smile at some, wince at others, and even have their blood warmed by one here and there, they must not forget that they were written by their brothers and sisters during a family quarrel when feeling was intense and the

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