The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-14

Still another famous Confederate song
is the work Of a Marylander. This is
'Stonswan Jackson's Way" bright.
dashfng composition Of six stanZas set
70 lively music IT was written by DIR.
John Williamson Palmer. a native OF
Balffmore. DR.. Palmer has made his
homo for several years in New York,
engaged there in magazine work. He
wrote "a clever poem on the Maryland
400" for the dedication of the monument
put up by the Marylanders on the bar
11e field of Long Island last August.
Here are the opening stanzas of "Stone-
wall Jackson's Way"
Come, stack arms men, pile on the rails.
Stir up the cap-fire bright;
No matter if the canteen fails.
Wen make a roaring night
Here Shenandoah brawls along,
There burly Blue Ridge echoes strong,
To swell the brigade's rousing song
Of "Stonewall Jackson's Way"
We see G1irn now-the old slouch hat
Cooked Ger his eye askew.
The shrewd, dry smile, the speech so
pat,
So calm, so blunt, SO true.
The "Blue-Light Elder" knows 'emw we'll;
Says The, That's Banks-hes found
Lord save his soul! we'll give him
well
That's ''Stonewall Jackson's Way"
The two most popular of all the Con-
fedetrate war songs had close associa-
tons with the stage, and originally
gained much Of their POPULARITY from be-
ing sung behind the footlights by their
authors. These ere Dixie" and 1.-The
Bonnie Blue Flag
Harry McCarty, the man who wrote
Gne latter, was of Irish birth. His song
was written at the time that Texas
Joined the COnfederacy, and this ac-
counts for the allusion in ii to the flag
that bears a single star" After the
war Mccarthy lived in Baltimore for
several years and was connected with
the Front Street theatre. Here is a bit
Of his song:
We are band of brothers and natives
10 the soil,
Fighting for the property we gained by
honest toll,
And when our rights were threatened
the cry rose near and far:
Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag that
bears single star!
Chorus-HurTahl hurrah, for the bon
ME blue flag that bears a sin
gle star
AS long as the Union was faithful to
her trust,
Like friends and like brothers, kind
were we and just;
But now when northern treachery at
tegnpTs our rights to mar.
We hoist on high the bonnie blue flag
that bears a single star.
minstrel. who wrote Dixie" is making
a farewell tour of the country this year.
He is more than eighty years old and
the only part which he takes in the
minstrel show which he accompanies is
to lead the ORCHESTRA while his famous
composition is sung. He wrote Dixie"
originally for Bryant's Ministries before
the war. Scores Of new verses were
written to THE melody after il had
spread. but this is the way that he
wrote it:
I wish I was in de land oh cotton,
'CimmOn seed and sandy bottom,
Look away, look way, away. Dixie
land.
In DiXie's land where I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin'.
Look away look way, away, Dixie
land.
Den wish was in Dixie.
CHORUS.
Hooray, hooray,
In Dixie's land we'll take our stand,
To lib an die in Dixie.
Away. away Away down south in
Dixie.
Away. away, away down south in
Dixie.
Just after the war closed there was
written 4 characteristic. unconven-
tional ballad called I'm a Good Old
Rebel which ad considerab BILE vogue in
the south. Its author is not known. al
though Ii is sOmetices published with
THE signature Of -. r. T." Its style IS
very we'll shown by the verse which
winds II up:
/ can't take up my musket
And fight EN- now no more,
But | amt a-going to love EN-,
Now that is sartin sure;
And 1 don't want no pardon
For what I was and am:
1 won't be reconstructed,
And j don't care a damn.
Maryland. My Maryland" since
the war has become 50 thoroughly ac-
cepted as a distinctive and character
iscfc state song that its original purpose
and its origin in an outburst of southern
sentiment have been almost lost sight
Of. although the story is familiar emo
ugh and has often been told.
James r. Randall. its author. was a
Marylander by birth enga ged in news
paper work in New Orleans at the out
break OF the conflict When the news
reached the south that Maryland was
not to join the southern COnfede-acy Il
was great disappointment TO him.
and for several days he thought about
the course OF his native state almost
continuously.
one night" he said recently. in To-
la'1ing the facts 10 friend Il Law
awake and IN the early dawn the idea 81
cS-S poem came TO me. l Jumped up /
and wrote the song of before a half I
hour had passed.
Setting the song 10 music forms an 4
other Interesting story 10 NarylandeTS. 1
The verses when printed made sheir .
way - Baltimore through the lines. and .
one night when q ccte-ie Of warm
heated southern young people were
:, -t-z--rlS secession songs" in The parlor .
az Mrs Wilson VI. Cary. an effort was .
made 20 ind a Suic2 bic melody 20 which .
AIT. RaDdsl's lines could be sung.
After several trials Miss Hetty Cary.
= a - e-i1 u t-r % f~-'l2 e'S>Sfr II. \
Newell Martin. suggested The old Ger
man melody called % Taunenbsum -
more Familiarity known as college song
under the title 81 'Saudeamus ISi-ll-.''
Tbs was tried and fitted beautifully.
II WAS sung Frequently by Hiss Cary
and her friends and soon atterwar,i !.
was published.
nrEBS-''Du5hs doesn't look quite so
2i = IS he dc during the war Tuhbs-
~ ae went into matriInory - = lieuter-
tll aud be never got promoted. Louis
vie Courier Journal.