Sharp's version of "The Warfare Is Raging" is in the DT, linked to by Malcolm Douglas above. It's strange there's no mention of Sharp in the Traditional Ballad Index or Malcolm Laws, Jr.'s American Balladry from British Broadsides (Laws O33: The Girl Volunteer). That the theme is old is well exemplified in Dianne Duggaw's Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850 (Cambridge UP, 1989). It may have been more appropriate to ask, "How traditional 'The Cruel War'?".

~Masato