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Martial Music, War of the Rebellion: Marching Thro LbNA #39454

Owner:Connfederate
Plant date:May 1, 2008
Location:
City:Andover
County:Tolland
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Found by: mamooshatoots (now Stamper)
Last found:Sep 16, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOFF
Last edited:Mar 14, 2019
Martial Music, The War of the Rebellion:
Marching Through Georgia

***13th.March 2019: Re-carved the stamp, and replanted in a new location.***

(One in an occasionally expanding series…)


“I intend to make Georgia howl.” W.T. Sherman


“Marching Through Georgia”
Words and Music by: Henry C. Work, 1865

Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song;
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along,
Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus:
"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.

How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound!
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found!
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus

Yes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored Flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching though Georgia.

Chorus

"Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!"
So the saucy Rebels said, and 'twas a handsome boast;
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the host,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus

So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus


From Kelley L. Ross’s profile in The Proceedings of the Friesian School website: http://www.friesian.com/ross/marching.htm Click (or cut and paste) the link to listen to the music.
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Henry Clay Work was born in Middletown, Connecticut on October 1, 1932 [sic; b. 1832] the son of an abolitionist. Like his father, Work too was also an active abolitionist and Union supporter. His home became a stop on the underground railway, and was instrumental in the escape of several thousand slaves seeking freedom.

Clay, a self-taught musician, was trained as a printer and began a career setting musical type. In 1853, working as a printer in Chicago, his first song was published, “We Are Coming, Sister Mary.” The song would become a staple in the Christy Minstrels over the next 10 years. In 1857, Work met and married Sarah Parker and the couple had four children, Waldo, Willie, Ellen and Clara.

During the Civil War, Work composed several popular songs including “Kingdom Coming!”, “Grafted Into the Army”, “Babylon is Fallen”, “Brave Boys Are They”, “Little Major”, “The Song of a Thousand Years”, “God Save the Nation”, “Wake Nicodemus”, “Marching Through Georgia” (later adopted as Princeton University’s football fight song), “Come Home Father”, “The Lost Letter” and “The Ship That Never Returned”.

Henry Clay Work died in Hartford, Connecticut on June 8, 1884.
From the Songwriters Hall of Fame Virtual Museum: http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=198


"Georgia" was written shortly after General Sherman began his famous march to the sea about the 16th of November, 1864. Mr. Work wrote some splendid army songs, but his reputation will rest on "Marching Through Georgia." So universal in its use was "Georgia" that General Sherman heard it with supreme disgust. It pursued him from city to city, and from state to state, and in all the great cities of Europe in which he was received. When the General attended the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Boston in 1890, he saw from the reviewing stand two hundred and fifty bands, and a hundred fife and drum corps pass in review; and the old warrior stood for seven mortal hours listening to the never ending strains of the music which commemorates the most triumph[ant] march of modern times. His patience collapsed, and with a grim gravity, peculiar to him, and in language too emphatic for repetition here, he declared that he would never attend another national encampment until every band in the United States has [sic] signed an agreement not to play "Marching Through Georgia" in his presence. This was Sherman's last encampment, and when the tune was next played in his presence, six months after, "there came no response from the echoless shore to which his soul had wafted."

Notes from Bill Warren
From the 5th Michigan Regiment Band: http://www.mi5th.org/Songs/MarchGeor.htm
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Follow the link (cut and paste) to listen to “Marching Through Georgia” as performed by the 97th Regimental String Band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-dzCt2xeSo
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Letterbox Difficulty Rating:
Difficulty Rating = 1.0
Terrain Rating = 2.5
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All directions are magnetic and a *pace equals two (2) steps.
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From US Rte. 6 turn onto the Hop River Rd. Park along the road near the yellow gates guarding the entrance to the Hop River Rail Trail and head East.
If you have not already followed Stonewall Jackson’s Way and Riding a Raid, then you might want to consider bringing those clues, too.
After passing Ol’ Blue Light and Beauty Stuart, continue East passing under Pucker Street.
As you emerge from the overpass, continue East on the rail trail approximately 81 *paces, and look to the right of the trail for an old telegraph pole, just over the end of the embankment.
You will find one of Sherman's Neck Ties under a broken slab of an old railroad tie behind the sister tree next to the pole.

If you're feeling adventuresome, bring the clues for Jine the Cavalry, and Goober Peas, too.

Please stamp in away from the hiding place, and carefully avoid making or at least try to conceal social trails to the letterbox--especially in mud or snow! Kindly reseal the Lock-n-Lock type box, and re-hide the letterbox exactly where it was placed, covering it well and contact the placer if you find any problems.
Thank you, Connfederate

Hike length: 1-2 miles