GUEST,Paul Burke: Not to be disagreeable, but I'm not aware that "Battle of New Orleans" dates from the period. The Ballad Index gives 1935 as earliest published date. (Well before Johnny Horton, though.)

There are a number of JP Jones songs but they are Rev. War - he died in 1792.

But there were many good songs of the 1812. And some good ones at that. Not to forget northern ones during the invasion of Canada - Lake Erie and all. I don't know how many are "commonly known today" besides the two mentioned. I'll have a look through my songbooks over the weekend.

BTW, this is actually a serious side (out of the not-so-serious sides) of the Happy File, to refresh songs that had some meaning but are much overlooked now.