-- The experience of Dolly Burge of Georgia. In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea passed by her house.
Southern States Secede
Secession
fever hit the South after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The
South considered Lincoln's Republican party victory in the 1860
presidential election as a sign that the North was now going to end the
"peculiar institution" of slavery. For the South, the time of talk and
compromise had ended. In December, 1860 South Carolina became the first
state to secede from the Union. Secession of the rest of the states that
would make up the Confederate States of America occurred in two waves.
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Jine the Cavalry
The Civil War song, Jine the Cavalry.
Barnes&Noble: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause  Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart |
The Civil War song, "Jine the Cavalry," is a popular Civil War song about J.E.B Stuart’s cavalry adventures. The song includes verses about events such as the ride around the Army of the Potomac, and the Gettysburg Campaign.
This song was the unofficial theme of James Ewell Brown Stuart’s cavalry corps and supposedly was a favorite of Stuart’s. Does it make you want to join the cavalry? Here’s one for all you Rebels out there…
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CHORUS: If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry! We’re the boys who went around McClellian, |
| "Jine the Cavalry" From the 2nd South Carolina String Band’s Hard Road |
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CHORUS: If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry! We’re the boys who crossed the Potomicum, |
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CHORUS: Then we went into Pennsylvania, |
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CHORUS: The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium, CHORUS: Ol’ Joe Hooker, won’t you come out of The Wilderness? CHORUS: |
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