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 ...

Horton said music was especially important during the Civil War when other forms of entertainment that offered relief from the battle were not available. “Music historians have estimated that about ...

Bob Dylan sang “Dixie” as a warm-up. The tune appeared on the soundtrack of a forgotten movie. Dylan’s recording of Dixie” is wrong on so many levels. Bob Dylan covered “Dixie,” a song with a horribly ...

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 ...

SANTA BARBARA D’OESTE, Brazil — It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and ...

It’s told in the voice of a Southern man who survived the end of the Civil War. He was not a patrician or an officer, but a small farmer. The song is a dirge. Towards the end of the war, Gen. Stoneman ...