Heck, half the best threads I've read keep on going long past the point where the person who started them got waaay more information than they asked for.

The best Civil War song for tugging heartstrings, in my not so humble opinion, is "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight."

We had a recording of Burl Ives singing it when I was a kid, and I can never think of it without hearing it sung in his friendly growl.