I like the tune, so I've downloaded the MIDI. I've changed the key, changed the time, changed the note lenghts, changed the metronome marking, and now I've got something that looks like a song, not a hornpipe.

We can see the original on the Lester Levy site. Here's the data:

1864
Words: C. Jefferys
Music: S. Nelson
Key:    G

Here's something new to me. It was registered in the Confederacy. For some reason it has never occurred to me that the rebels would have a copyright office.

"Registered by George Dunn (the printer and publisher) in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Confederate States of America for the Eastern District of Virginia."