Benjamin Hanby wrote Nelly Gray in 1856, in response to a fugitive slave case …
Tag: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham’s Daughter (Winner, 1861)
“One Country and one Flag, I say, whoe’er the war may slaughter…”
Dixie: “One of the best songs I have ever heard…” (1865)
Abraham Lincoln (April 10, 1865): “Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
The Hardtacks 