The Florence Herald (June 14, 1900) advertises an "old fiddlers' contest" for the Fourth of July and lists the following tunes to be played. Such lists are unusual in that period:

Mississippi Sawyer
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Run, N----r, Run
Sugar in the Gourd
Old Mollie Hare
Billy in the Low Grounds
Natchez Under the Hill
Hell in Georgia
Devil Among the Tailors
Jennie, Get Your Hoe Cake Done
Milk and Peaches
Speed the Plow
Bill Cheatham
Leather Breeches
Arkansas Traveler
Within a Mile of Edinboro Town
The Lass of Goein [sic]
Home, Sweet, Home
Suwannee River
Hail Columbia
Fisher's Hornpipe
The Sailor's Hornpipe
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Who Will Be King But Charlie
Irish Washerwoman
Dixie


Most or all of these tunes were known and played during the Civil War - presumably by many of the "old fiddlers."

The same list appears in the Marion Standard (July 5), which adds:

Hell After the Yearlings
Devil's Dream
Alabama Gals
Sweet Gals in the Piney Woods
Cinda [sic]
Red Apple
The Old Hen Cackled
John T. Moore

The Moulton Advertiser (Aug. 2) added

Down in Mobile
Sallie, Put the Saddle on the Old Gray Mule.