“Nursery Rhymes” on the Civil War…

November 12, 2011 by  
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Parody songs are not uncommon on the airwaves today, particularly around Christmas time. Apparently adapting words to fit an existing tune–or poem–is nothing new as this May 17, 1865 issue of “The Springfield Daily Republican” shows (see below).  These were certainly not the high-water mark of the varied Union responses to the end of the war:

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