Civil War Songs

CLUE: AMERICA’S DEADLIEST SONGS: AN EXPLORATION OF MUSIC FROM THE CIVIL WAR “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Dixie” are the two main answers people give when asked what songs they most relate to the civil war. The Clue actually showed many others relating to the civil war, the insight their words give, and even variations of the Battle Hymn of the republic. One song for example, “The Battle Cry of Freedom,” kept …

…was better, and became quite popular. Now although there were a plethora of songs now discussed at the Clue, those listen to at the Clue, and the one’s written about in this paper were the most popular and indicative of events, emotions, and ideas during the war. Like music today, the music around the Civil War really captured the time in which they were written, and the thoughts of the people who wrote them.