I've sung "While We Were Marching Through Georgia" many times. Back when I was a conservative, we party-of-Lincoln Republicans trotted that song out against states-rights-"Dixie" Republicans all the time. I had no idea that this was a movie trope.
The chorus is what stays in my head:
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea While we were marching through Georgia
While we were driving through Georgia a few weeks ago, we stopped briefly at the site of the battle of Resaca, one of the battles leading to Sherman taking Atlanta. I am always moved and confused when I visit Civil War battlefields. What a lot of people fought and died in that conflict; how very bloody is much of the ground throughout the south; was my ancestor at this battle? By the time of Resaca, he was in a Union prisoner of war camp near Toledo, Ohio, so, no.
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Date: 2009-10-23 06:21 pm (UTC)The chorus is what stays in my head:
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia
While we were driving through Georgia a few weeks ago, we stopped briefly at the site of the battle of Resaca, one of the battles leading to Sherman taking Atlanta. I am always moved and confused when I visit Civil War battlefields. What a lot of people fought and died in that conflict; how very bloody is much of the ground throughout the south; was my ancestor at this battle? By the time of Resaca, he was in a Union prisoner of war camp near Toledo, Ohio, so, no.