Contents ▼▲
Front Matter Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Is President "Fort Sumter" The First Bloodshed Federal Hill The Confederate States Young Colonel Ellsworth Contrabands Contraband of Port Royal A Negro's Answer Big and Little "Bethel" Bethel Dixie's Land Battle Cry of Freedom Battle of Bull Run Eddy, the Drummer Boy The Old Camp Ground Sea-Island Cotton Plantations The Picket Guard "The Sea Islands" Seizure of Mason and Slidell The Merrimac and Monitor The Last Broadside Battle of Mill Spring A Brave Boy at Fort Henry Taking of Donelson Pluck at Fort Donelson The Battle of Shiloh The Old Sergeant Brother Against Brother Quaker Guns Dark Days The Song of the Camps Lee Kept from Pennsylvania Barbara Frietchie Virginia Army Capture of New Orleans Secession Women The Mock Funeral Affairs in the West Sharp-Shooters Stealing Potatoes Joe Parsons The War Picture Lillie's Gold Piece What People Did for Soldiers Proclamation of Emancipation Negro Song and Music First Negro Regiment The Siege of Vicksburg Stonewall Jackson is Killed The Story of Stonewall Battle of Gettysburg John Burns and Jenny Wade "Drafting" Attack on Charleston The Guerillas Valley of Chickamauga Johnny Clem "Battle in the Clouds" Libby Prison Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Old Virginia On to Richmond! Sheridan's Ride Evacuation of Richmond From Atlanta to the Sea On to Atlanta Torpedoes Signals The War is Over Johnny comes Marching Home Battle Hymn of the Republic

American History Stories—Volume IV - Mara L. Pratt




Negro Song

This is a funny old song that the "darkeys" used to delight to sing in the days when they believed "Father Abraham" was coming to free them.

[Illustration] from American History Stories - IV by Mara L. Pratt