Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

DECATUR, Ala. With darkness settling over the battlefield, the familiar lyrics rose -- music and voices blending from both Union and Confederate camps. 'Mid pleasures and palaces though I may roam, Be ...

What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...

Civil war songs; sung by Frank Warner, with Jeff and Gerret Warner. Table of contents Old Abe Lincoln -- Battle of Bull Run -- Battle cry of freedom -- The twenty-third -- Marching along -- Bonnie ...