Something for the weekend. God Save the South(1861), the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy, sung by Bobby Horton who has waged a one man crusade to bring Civil War music to contemporary audiences.
Bonus:
God Save the South
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The renaming is what the people want in Shenadoah County. As I have remarked before it is not about refighting the War Between the States. It is about the people’s Heritage. Jackson and Lee were both grads of West Point and served in the the Mexican – American War. afterwads Jackson was a professor at VMI and spent his off time teaching slaves religion, reading, writing, etc. Lee stayed in the USA until 1861. Both men led honorable, productive lives before the Civil War and Lee afterwards. Unfortunately Jackson died in the war.
Sen.Tim Kaine is blathering, using the race card, about renaming being a big mistake. The unfortunate thing about Virginia politics is that many of her politicians are not natives. Kaine wa born in St. Paul and reared in Kansas.
I’m curious about the tune, which sounds like a survival from the Baroque. It doesn’t resemble anything I recognize in the National Romanticism of the time.
The tune was composed for the song by Charles Wolfgang Amadeus Ellerbrock, a name almost as long as the song!
Must admit, I half wondered if this was a Babylon Bee item. Good to see someone fight the North-South “complete good guy, complete bad guy” rubbish. …Now if we could tell the whole truth about renamed military installations….
I also must admit to being surprised this isn’t Dixie. I’d had the impression the South rather preferred that song at the time.
Dixie was a jaunty tune to march to. It seemed ill fitting for solemn occasions which was when National Anthems, a fairly new concept at the time, were being played.
It’s not an appealing anthem.
Debates about taste tend to be futile Art.
Bonnie Blue Flag is a more likeable piece IMO. I came across a nice instrumental version.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/civil-war-music-bonnie-blue-flag
“It seemed ill fitting for solemn occasions…”
Mm, fair point.
I still love it, as did Abe Lincoln.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6DP_erT40
For the Confederates it filled the same role, a tune of jaunty defiance, that Yankee Doodle did for the Patriots in the Revolution.