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Recapture the mood of America during the 1860s with the works of its finest poets, storytellers, and other writers. Re-create its folksong traditions with sheet music of the period's popular melodies.
Recommendations... Civil War Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.
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by Irwin Silber
Collection of 125 songs includes a historical introduction, illustrations, and scores for easy piano, guitar chords, plus all the verses: The Battle Cry of Freedom (Rallying Song), The Battle Hymn of the Republic, more.
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Products in Literature and Music | | |  | Civil War Poetry
by Paul Negri
A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War features more than 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, and many others.
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|  | Civil War Poetry and Prose
by Walt Whitman
Poems, letters, and prose from the war years include "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.
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|  | The Civil War Songbook
by Richard Crawford
Thirty-seven songs: The Battle Cry of Freedom, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Battle Hymn of the Republic, 34 more.
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| | Civil War Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.
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|  | The Little Regiment and Other Stories
by Stephen Crane
Seven vivid, sensitive tales by author of The Red Badge of Courage. Fine title story plus "Miraculous Soldiers," "A Mystery of Heroism," "A Gray Sleeve," 3 more.
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|  | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
This modestly priced volume includes 23 stories in all — many of Bierce's best, from the Civil War classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" to the renowned horror tale "The Moonlit Road."
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|  | The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Amid the nightmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soldier discovers courage, humility, and, perhaps, wisdom. Uncanny re-creation of actual combat. Enduring landmark of American fiction.
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|  | Slave Songs of the United States
by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison
This 1867 landmark book was the first systematic effort to collect and preserve songs sung by plantation slaves. Most of the 130 songs, geographically arranged, were recorded directly from the singers themselves.
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| | Songs of the Civil War
by Irwin Silber
Collection of 125 songs includes a historical introduction, illustrations, and scores for easy piano, guitar chords, plus all the verses: The Battle Cry of Freedom (Rallying Song), The Battle Hymn of the Republic, more.
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|  | Stephen Foster Song Book
by Stephen Foster
Forty favorites: Beautiful Dreamer, Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night), Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Oh! Susanna, Old Black Joe, The Song of All Songs, That's What's the Matter, more.
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|  | With Lee in Virginia
by G. A. Henty
The Civil War is seen through the eyes of a spirited Southern teenager who staunchly supports the rights of slaves but joins Lee's cavalry and fights for the Confederacy. 15 black-and-white illustrations.
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