Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...
Recently, I read a Civil War diary in which the author described a group of Confederate soldiers sitting by a road singing a popular folk song titled, “Goober Peas.” “Goodness, how delicious, eating ...
What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...
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