“To care for him who shall have borne the battle.” When Nancy Klimek, recreation manager at the Grand Island Veterans Home, gave that quote from President Abraham Lincoln, she tied the past and ...

GLEN —Join Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna Travellers in a lively program of songs and tunes from Civil War times, as well as newer compositions in the folk tradition on Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. at the ...

WINDHAM — The Civil War Music Heritage Gathering and Encampment in Windham came to a close Sunday with a group of musicians performing Civil War-era music on the lawn of the Centre Church on Route 23.

A local historical group will be hosting a presentation about popular music during the American Civil War, including President Abraham Lincoln’s favorite music. Recommended for you ...

ROCHESTER — The Rochester Area Historical Society will sponsor the program, “Songs of the Civil War,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Rochester Municipal Building, 300 W. Spring St. Doors open at ...

Part of everyone's meat and drink : popular music and the Civil War -- John Browns and battle cries : the patriotic songs of the union -- Gay deceibers and bonnie blue flags : the anthems of the ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play “Oh! Susannah ...

The star-studded soundtrack to “The Gray House,” the Civil War-era drama series that debuts Thursday on Amazon Prime Video, features four songs co-written by a pair of Arkansas musicians.

From “Yankee Doodle” to iPod playlists, here’s what American troops read and listened to in every war — and how culture became morale equipment.