Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) SOUTHERN WAR SONGS [Illustration: THE SOUTHERN CROSS BATTLE FLAG DESIGNED BY GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. THE STARS AND BARS. FLAG ADOPTED BY THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS IN 1863. BATTLE FLAG ADOPTED BY THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS IN 1863.] SOUTHERN WAR SONGS. Camp-Fire, PATRIOTIC and Sentimental. COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY W. L. FAGAN _ILLUSTRATED._ New York M. T. RICHARDSON & CO. 1890. COPYRIGHTED BY M. T. RICHARDSON. 1889. _PREFACE._ _The war songs of the South are a part of the history of the Lost Cause. They are necessary to the impartial historian in forming a correct estimate of the animus of the Southern people._ _Emotional literature is always a correct exponent of public sentiment, and these songs index the passionate sincerity of the South at the time they were written._ _Poetic merit is not claimed for all of them; still each one embodies either a fact or a principle. Written in an era of war, when the public mind was thoroughly aroused, some may now appear harsh and vindictive. Eight millions of people read and sang them. This fact alone warrants their collection and preservation._ _A greater number of the songs have been gathered from Southern newspapers. The task has been laborious, but still a labor of love, as no work of this kind has before been offered to the public._ _Thanks are due Mr. Henri Wehrman, of New Orleans, for permission to use valuable copyrights, also to the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston; A. E. Blackmar, New Orleans; and J. C. Schreiner, Savannah, Ga. Mr. G. N. Galloway, Philadelphia, has given material assistance._ _The work is not complete, still the compiler claims for it the largest and only collection of Confederate songs published._ _W. L. FAGAN._ _Havana, Ala., December 1, 1889._ LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. _Page_ "_A flash from the edge of a hostile trench_," 351 "_And his life-blood is ebbing and splashing_," 64 "_Arise to thy lattice, the moon is asleep_," 173 "_Come back to me, my darling son, and light my life again_," 257 _Confederate note_, 371 "_Farewell to earth and all its beauteous bloom_," 161 "_For I know there is no other e'er can be so dear to me_," 297 _General J. E. B. Stuart_, 331 _General Lee_, 97 "_He faintly smiled and waved his hand_," 235 "_He's in the saddle now_," 201 "_* * * How mellow the light showers down on that brow_," 117