Bruce O, post of 05 May 98, mentions that A. G. Gilchrist, in JFSS II, no. 9, 1906, says that Harper's Magazine, May, 1882, in an article by W. J. Alden, mentions the tune O' Shang-ga-dore with variants, and the line 'I love your daughters'.

I have searched that issue and there is no such article or note. No article or note by that author is listed for other issues of 1882, although I have not searched them page by page.

Does anyone have further information?

Any proof of the use of this song in the 19th c.,, except as a chantey?
Any credible mention of soldiers singing the song during the U. S. Civil War?