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STORIES OF
Blue Flag" was the Southern national air, and was to the boys in gray what" Yankee Doodle" was to the boys in blue. The Southern women took it up with marvellous enthusiasm, and the chorus rang wildly through every city and town.
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" was written in 1862 by Mrs. Annie Chambers-Ketchum to an Irish melody adapted or composed by Henry McCarthy. The authoress of the words is still alive.
Among the other living lyrics of the war, sentimental and otherwise, were Charles Carroll Sawyer's "Who will care for Mother now?" and "When this cruel War is over." Then came " Fairy Bell," " Annie of the Dell," " Toll the Bell for lovely Nell," "Wait for the Waggon," "Lily Dale," "Old Cabin Home," " Fair, fair, with golden Hair," and " Daisy Dean," by various writers. To these may be added F. H. Smith's "Tenting to-night on the old Camp Ground," S. J. Adams's "We are coming, Father Abraham, Three Hundred Thousand More," and the rollicking " When Johnny comes marching home again," said to have been composed by the celebrated Patrick S. Gilmore. Does anybody remember this curious production ?
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