I had a chance to look through the songbooks and jog my memory--alas, what I recalled was a song about women contributing to the Southern war effort by not buying fabric from the North, but wearing homespun dresses. "The Homespun Dress" can be found in Randolph's Ozark collection, and Hudson's Folksongs of Mississippi, Belden's Ballads and Songs (Missouri) and probably elsewhere.

Lisa Null recalled the saltpetre song as being in the repertoire of David Jones of New Jersey.

--Charlie Baum