For Civil War buffs, I suppose among the most famous musical moments is the playing of "Kathleen Mavourneen" by Almira Hancock at the final farewell evening in California before her husband Winfield Scott Hancock and his bosom friend Lewis Armistead went into their separate armies (only to meet again at Gettysburg where Armistead fell at the high water mark of the Confederacy, and willed his bible to Almira). I have no idea if it is a true story, but it is a classic tearjerker....

yours, Peter T.