The songs of this group are based upon incidents or events of the Civil War.

Bounty jumpers, 3abcb, 9: Sam Downey, a soldier, “jumps his bounty,” and is apprehended in Baltimore. Refusing to return the money, he is shot by the military authorities.

Hiram Hubbert, 3abcb, 9: Hiram Hubbert is taken by the Rebels in the guerrilla warfare in the Cumberland Mountains, tried, tied to a tree and shot. He leaves a last letter of farewell to his family.

The guerrilla man, 3a3b4c3b, 5: A Southern soldier goes to Shelby County, Ky., and falls in love with a “Rebel girl,” who loves him in spite of the opposition of her mother, and determines to follow him.

Murfreesboro, 4a3b4c3b, 7: A Union soldier lies dying on the battlefield. He sends to his mother and sweetheart a message recounting his bravery.

Battle of Gettysburg (the two soldiers), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 13: Two comrades promise each other to bear messages, in the event of death to either of them on the field one to a sweetheart, the other to a mother.

The blue and the gray, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f4e and 4a3b4c3b3e4f3e, 2: A mother has lost two sons in gray, at Appomattox and at Chickamauga. Her third has just died in blue at Santiago.

Zollicoffer: A fragment as follows:

Old Zollicoffer’s dead, and the last word he said
Was, “I’m going back South; they’re a-gaining.”
If he wants to save his soul, he had better keep his hole,
Or we’ll land him in the happy land of Canaan.

I’m going to join the army, 3abcb, 12: A volunteer’s farewell to his sweetheart as he leaves for Pensacola, her fears, and his promise to return.

[Come all, Ye Southern soldiers], 3abcb, 8: A volunteer, aged sixteen, from Eastern Tennessee, describes the march into Virginia and his feelings at his first sight of the “Yankees.”