Companion Songbook Now Available. The songs are an extremely useful source for teaching the culture of the Civil War period. The War Begins After the election of Abraham Lincoln, eleven states secede. Glory fades in the face of reality as soldiers sing of inadequate food and the slaughter at Shiloh. Civilians sing of the inequities of the draft and of doing without.
Ironclad ships revolutionize naval warfare, guerilla warfare increases, prisoners of war die.