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SOUTHERN WAR SONGS




[Illustration: THE SOUTHERN CROSS BATTLE FLAG DESIGNED BY GEN. JOSEPH E.
JOHNSTON.

THE STARS AND BARS.

FLAG ADOPTED BY THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS IN 1863.

BATTLE FLAG ADOPTED BY THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS IN 1863.]




  SOUTHERN WAR SONGS.

  Camp-Fire, PATRIOTIC and Sentimental.


  COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY W. L. FAGAN


  _ILLUSTRATED._


  New York
  M. T. RICHARDSON & CO.
  1890.




  COPYRIGHTED BY
  M. T. RICHARDSON.
  1889.




_PREFACE._


_The war songs of the South are a part of the history of the Lost Cause.
They are necessary to the impartial historian in forming a correct
estimate of the animus of the Southern people._

_Emotional literature is always a correct exponent of public sentiment,
and these songs index the passionate sincerity of the South at the time
they were written._

_Poetic merit is not claimed for all of them; still each one embodies
either a fact or a principle. Written in an era of war, when the public
mind was thoroughly aroused, some may now appear harsh and vindictive.
Eight millions of people read and sang them. This fact alone warrants
their collection and preservation._

_A greater number of the songs have been gathered from Southern
newspapers. The task has been laborious, but still a labor of love, as no
work of this kind has before been offered to the public._

_Thanks are due Mr. Henri Wehrman, of New Orleans, for permission to use
valuable copyrights, also to the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston; A. E.
Blackmar, New Orleans; and J. C. Schreiner, Savannah, Ga. Mr. G. N.
Galloway, Philadelphia, has given material assistance._

_The work is not complete, still the compiler claims for it the largest
and only collection of Confederate songs published._

_W. L. FAGAN._

_Havana, Ala., December 1, 1889._




LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.


                                                                  _Page_

  "_A flash from the edge of a hostile trench_,"                     351

  "_And his life-blood is ebbing and splashing_,"                     64

  "_Arise to thy lattice, the moon is asleep_,"                      173

  "_Come back to me, my darling son, and light my life again_,"      257

  _Confederate note_,                                                371

  "_Farewell to earth and all its beauteous bloom_,"                 161

  "_For I know there is no other e'er can be so dear to me_,"        297

  _General J. E. B. Stuart_,                                         331

  _General Lee_,                                                      97

  "_He faintly smiled and waved his hand_,"                          235

  "_He's in the saddle now_,"                                        201

  "_* * * How mellow the light showers down on that brow_,"          117

  "_I am thinking of the soldier as the evening shadows fall_,"      183

  "_I'm a good old rebel_,"                                          361

  "_I marched up midout fear_,"                                       11

  "_Jack Morgan_,"                                                   282

  "_Knitting for the soldiers! matron--merry maid_,"                  54

  "_Knitting for the soldiers! wrinkled--aged crone_,"                53

  "_Lady, I go to fight for thee_,"                                  151

  "_Lying in the shadow, underneath the trees_,"                      75

  "_Massa_,"                                                         216

  "_Massa run, aha_,"                                                217

  "_My right arm bared for fiercer play_,"                           139

  "_No matter should it rain or snow, That bugler is bound
  to blow_,"                                                          23

  "_Only a list of the wounded and dead_,"                            87

  "_So we'll bury 'old Logan' to-night_,"                            127

  "_The Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star_,"                  32

  "_The hero boy lay dying_,"                                        107

  "_Then gallop by ravine and rocks_,"                               316

  "_There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread_,"              63

  "_Though fifteen summers scarce have shed their blossoms on
  thy brow_,"                                                        256

  "_Three acres I_,"                                                  43

  "_Thy steed is impatient his mistress to bear_,"                   172

  "_We'll one day meet again_,"                                       44

  "_When the stars are softly smiling * * * Then I think of
  thee and Heaven_,"                                                 299




SOUTHERN WAR SONGS.




GOD SAVE THE SOUTH.[1]

_National Hymn._

Words by GEORGE H. MILES; Music by C. W. A. ELLERBROCK; Permission of A.
E. BLACKMAR.

[The music of this song can be procured of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston,
Mass, owner of the copyright.]


  God save the South,
  God save the South,
    Her altars and firesides,
  God save the South,
  Now that the war is nigh,
  Chanting our battle-cry
    Freedom or death.

  CHORUS--Now that the war is nigh,
          Now that we arm to die,
          Chanting the battle cry,
            Freedom or death.

  God be our shield,
  At home or afield,
  Stretch thine arm over us,
   