McGrath of Harlow:

In your post of 25 Sept 6:12am you touched upon the song / poem " A Soldier from Missouri". As an adjunct for the Rebel song, I started to check on the "history" of this song and I am coming up empty handed as to a background for this song. It doesn't come up in any search for the song in almost any site you try for CW music, with the exception for 1 or 2. Do we have another situation where the song is considered a CW song ; but in fact is not? However, unlike the Rebel song, I can't find a modern source. Am I just not looking in the right places?

Anyone can chime in on this one, if you can pinpoint some answers to this situaion. I will continue to run some searches to see if some sort of history can be established for this song. If I remember correctly, one source points out that it was being arraigned by Hutchinson, the same person that appears on the sheet music for Bingen. Yet I can't find a history for it in the middle to late 1800(s). Help!

Rambler