{"id":460,"date":"2010-10-07T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:16:03","slug":"20-popular-civil-war-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/460\/20-popular-civil-war-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Popular Civil War Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"147322a129097e1fa44d6732c925fd6d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8134560547846945\";\r\n\/* 468x60 tha *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1487607395\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The American Civil War &#8211; like most wars &#8211; was popularized and memorialized in song. Some are light melodies and some are more somber reminders of the horrors of the Civil War battles.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, here are 20 of the most popular songs about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/categories\/American-Civil-War\/regiments\/index.html\">Civil War regiments<\/a>, life, battles and memorials.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dixie<\/li>\n<li>Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful Dreamer<\/li>\n<li>We Are Coming Father Abraham, 300,000 More<\/li>\n<li>The Battle Cry of Freedom<\/li>\n<li>Marching Through Georgia<\/li>\n<li>When Johnnie Comes Marching Home<\/li>\n<li>Battle Hymm of the Republic<\/li>\n<li>Maryland, My Maryland<\/li>\n<li>Drafted Into The Army<\/li>\n<li>All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight<\/li>\n<li>Come Home father<\/li>\n<li>Ellie Rhee<\/li>\n<li>Old Black Joe<\/li>\n<li>The Vacant Chair<\/li>\n<li>Tis But A Little Faded Flower<\/li>\n<li>The Bonnie Blue Flag<\/li>\n<li>Sherman&#8217;s March to the Sea<\/li>\n<li>John Brown&#8217;s Body<\/li>\n<li>Tenting On The Old Camp Ground<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Many of these songs can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/dukesmquery.html\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress Historic American Sheet Music collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehistoricalarchive.com%2Fhappenings%2F460%2F20-popular-civil-war-songs%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil War &#8211; like most wars &#8211; was popularized and memorialized in song. Some are light melodies and some are more somber reminders of the horrors of the Civil War battles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,43,42],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}