97th regimental string band-weeping sad and lonely

[just1terry]

i can remember Bill Anderson humming this...

[powertothebees]

"When This Cruel War is Over"

Southerners changed "blue" to "grey."

[tuyetkiennguyen]

popular song whose sheet mmusic sold nearly a million copies during the war

[MrsFiddlePlayer]

I found the below website quite by accident, which led me to this youtube posting. Thanks so much. I love this.

A Civil War tune: Words by Charles Carroll Sawyer, Music composed and arranged by Henry Tucker

[MrsFiddlePlayer]

@MrsFiddlePlayer

scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheet­music/a/a48/a4826/a4826-1-72dp­i.html

[schpoingle]

ken burns? 

[BloodNorseGods]

nice south took dixie the north takes when this cruel war is over.

[scarlettohhkb]

This song makes me cry every time.

[LadyTwenties]

Love you boys, even if you are Yankees! ;) In all frankness though, the 97th are probably my favorite re-enactment band.

[hooah002]

wonderfully done, yeah i heard that too kevin. because of dying and stuff.

I am a civil war historian

and i am 26 years old i been studying the american civil war when i was 6 yrs old

[kevinkards]

i understand it was banned by the north and south at the time not good for moral

[EMesaros]

@kevinkards Very interesting! Charley Zahm says the same thing about "Lorena." The men were forbidden to sing it because it was so heatbreaking. I'm not sure it stopped them, though!

[0rionBTL]

Thank you for not letting this beautiful piece of music die. Wonderful job.