Battlefields and Campfires: Civil War Era Songs Volume 1 [Audio Cassette]

Christopher Lee Woods (Author)

Book Description

Two cassette audiobook with approximately 2 hours of music, anecdotes, parodies and spoken history of ... Battle Cry Of Freedom; When Johnny Comes Marching Home; The Bonnie Blue Flag; Goober Peas; Just Before The Battle, Mother; Rose Of Alabama; Tom Dula; The Minstrel Boy; Coming To Us Dead; Kingdom Coming; Mrs. McGrath; Roll Alabama; Marching Through Georgia ; Lincoln And Liberty; Billy Broke Locks. Fifteen authentic, full-length songs sung by the 97th Regimental String Band.

This audiobook transports you to the past with an artful combination of anecdotes, quotes and the spoken histories of the songs most popular during the American Civil War. With the talented 97th Regimental String Band singing, you will experience the patriotism, pathos and humor of this most turbulent period in our Nation's history. Listen and you will hear the past.

Editorial Reviews

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The following is taken from a point near the end of the first chapter's song, "Battle Cry Of Freedom."

... Richard W. Browne reported a conversation he had with a Confederate Army major in Richmond shortly after General Lee's surrender. The Rebel officers told him ...

"I shall never forget the first time I heard that song ... during the Seven Days battles ... I was on picket, when some fellow on the other side struck up a song and others joined in the chorus until it seemed to me the whole Yankee army was singing. A man with me sang out, 'Good heavens, Captain, what are those fellows made of anyway? Here we've licked'em six days running, and now on the eve of the seventh, they're singing Rally Round the Flag!' I am not naturally superstitious, but I tell you, that song sounded like the knell of doom, and my heart went down into my boots ... it has been an uphill fight with me ever since that night."

Root died at Bailey's Island, Maine, on August 6, 1895. The former Assistant Secretary of War and editor of the New York Sun, Charles A. Dana, wrote upon his death "... George Root did more to preserve the Union than a great many brigadier generals, and quite as much as some brigades."

In 1865 at Charleston, South Carolina, when the Union bandmaster had to chose an appropriate song for ceremonies at the Fort Sumter flag raising, out of all the melodies that he could have chosen to be played, as the flag that had been taken down four years before was raised again to its place of honor, he chose the "Battle Cry of Freedom."

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: N.G.A. Studios
• ISBN-10: 1884649033
• ISBN-13: 978-1884649035
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,356,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)