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GUEST,Lighter	Origins: When We Fit for General Grant (5)	RE: Origins: When We Fit for General Grant	29 Nov 22
Nice find, Carter. It's worth mentioning that nobody was "fighting for General Grant" (or Lee, for that matter) in 1861. The song was well enough known that it provided the title of a short 1906 book by Roger D. Swaim ("When We Fit for General Grant") about Massachussetts National Guard maneuvers at Manassas, Virginia, in the year 1904. The book was privately issued in Cambridge. As for the tune... It's here. And it's a whole lot like that of the Child ballad, U.S. Navy song, and college and Clancy Bros. fave, "The Mermaid": https://tinyurl.com/2p9abvsj The arrangement was by C. Lawrence Smith, Jr., Class of '97.

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