The Music of the American Civil War (1861-1865)

These General MIDI files are based on The Civil War Songbook: Complete Original Sheet Music for 37 Songs Selected and with an Introduction by Richard Crawford, published by Dover Publications in 1977, ISBN 0-486-23422-3. I also have another Civil War music page of many other songs which I will continue to add to. You can now find most of this book online here.

PATRIOTIC SONGS
The Battle Cry of Freedom	1862, George Frederic Root, 1820-1895
Battle Hymn of the Republic	1862, Julia Ward Howe
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!	1861, [The popular refrain]
Dixie's Land (Dixie)	1860, Daniel Decatur Emmett
The Bonnie Blue Flag	1861, Mrs. Annie Chambers-Ketchum Henry (Harry) Macarthy
Maryland, My Marryland!	1861, James Ryder Randall
The Southrons' Chaunt of Defiance	1861, Armand Edward Blackmar
THE SOLDIERING LIFE
We Are Coming Father Abra'am	1862 James Sloan Gibbons Luther Orlando Emerson
Marching Through Georgia	1865, Henry Clay Work
Who'll Save the Left?	1863 R. Tompkins George Frederick Root, 1820-1895
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (or The Prisoner's Hope)	1864, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895
Just Before the Battle, Mother	1864, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895
The Soldier's Return	1862 W. H. Morris John Rogers Thomas
Tenting on the Old Campground	1864, Walter Kittredge
All Quiet Along the Potamac To-Night	1863 Ethel Lynn Beers John Hill Hewitt
The Grant Pill (or "Unconditional Surrender")	1864 Harriet L. Castle James Cox Beckel
O I'm a Good Old Rebel	unknown
BATTLEFIELD DEATHS
The Children of the Battle Field	1864, James Gowdy Clark, 1830-1897
Comrades, I Am Dying!	1864 Thomas Manahan B. Sontag
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh	1863, William Shakespeare Hays
Little Major	1862, Henry Clay Work
The Dying Volunteer	1861, G. Gumpert
Bear Gently, So Gently, the Roughly Made Bier	1864 Mrs. E. A. B. Mitchell Chr. Mathias
DOMESTIC SCENES
Can I Go Dearest Mother?	1862, Bernard Covert
Weeping, Sad and Lonely (or When This Cruel World Is Over)	1862 Charles Carrol Sawyer Henry Tucker
O Come You from the Battle-Field?	1864, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895
When Johnny Comes Marching Home	1863, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
The Vacant Chair (or We Shall Meet But We Shall Miss Him)	1862, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895
Brave Boys Are They!	1861, Henry Clay Work
Mother Is the Battle Over?	n.d., Benedict E. Roefs
Grafted into the Army	1862, Henry Clay Work
Jeff in Petticoats	1865 George Cooper Henry Tucker
EMANCIPATION SONGS
The New Emancipation Song	1864 R. A. T. Mrs. Parkhurst
Glory! Glory! (or The Little Octoroon)	1866, George Frederick Root, 1820-1895
Kingdom Coming	1862, Henry Clay Work
Sixty-Three Is the Jubilee	1863 J. L. Greene D. A. French
We Are Coming from the Cotton Fields	1864 J. C---n J. C. Wallace

Webpage contents and all MIDI files are
Copyright © 1998-2011 by Benjamin Robert Tubb.
All Rights Reserved.
Last updated 3 January 2011.

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PATRIOTIC SONGS

THE SOLDIERING LIFE

BATTLEFIELD DEATHS

DOMESTIC SCENES

EMANCIPATION SONGS

Webpage contents and all MIDI files are Copyright © 1998-2011 by Benjamin Robert Tubb. All Rights Reserved. Last updated 3 January 2011.