Songs of the Civil War Author:Irwin Silber (Editor), Jerry Silverman (Arranger) Among our less tangible but no less real keepsakes of the Civil War are its songs, the songs of Civil War America - stirring marching songs and patriotic hymns, unabashedly sentimental ballads and comic ditties, the boasting songs and drinking songs and fighting songs and loving songs of America's bloodiest and most significant struggle. And... more » throughout these songs, an age which is past is brought to life, and we live with the men and women who walked this land a century ago.« less