Hoping to bring this with me to the Getaway, I was looking for more history on the lyrics Susan refers to above.

A Yahoo search brought me right round to the Mudcat, and this old thread!

I learned this verse from the singing of Sweet Honey in the Rock. They, and many others, attribute this verse to Sojourner Truth:

"We are colored Yankee soldiers

>Who've listed for the war

>We are fighting for the Union

>We are fighting for the Lord

>We can shoot a rebel farther

>Than a white man ever saw

>As we go marching on."

Dani