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

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 ...

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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.