Southern soldier goes to Shelby
County, Ky., and falls in love with a "Rebel girl," who loves him in
spite of the opposition of her mother, and determines to follow him.

MURFREESBORO, 4a3b4c3b, 7: A Union soldier lies dying on the
battlefield. He sends to his mother and sweetheart a message recounting
his bravery.

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (THE TWO SOLDIERS), ii, 4a3b4c3b, 13: Two comrades
promise each other to bear messages, in the event of death to either of
them on the field--one to a sweetheart, the other to a mother.

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f4e and 4a3b4c3b3e4f3e, 2: A mother
has lost two sons in gray, at Appomattox and at Chickamauga. Her third
has just died in blue at Santiago.

ZOLLICOFFER: A fragment as follows:

Old Zollicoffer's dead, and the last word he said
Was, "I'm going back South; they're a-gaining."
If he wants to save his soul, he had better keep his hole,
Or we'll land him in the happy land of Canaan.

I'M GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY, 3abcb, 12: A volunteer's farewell to his
sweetheart as he leaves for Pensacola, her fears, and his promise to
return.

[COME ALL, YE SOUTHERN SOLDIERS], 3abcb, 8: A volunteer, aged sixteen,
from Eastern Tennessee, describes the march into Virginia and his
feelings at his first sight of the "Yankees."

VI.

_The songs of this group relate to the days of pioneer migration
Westward. The one exception is The Sailor's Request, placed here in
order to bring it into proximity with its later variant, The Dying
Cowboy._

ARKANSAS TRAVELLER (SANTFORD BARNES) ii, 4a3b4c3b, 14ca: A laborer's
humorous recital of his hard experiences in Arkansas. He leaves the
state, vowing that if he sees it again it will be "through a telescope
from hell to Arkansaw."

STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERNMENT CLAIM, 4aa and 4aabb, 20: "Ernest
Smith" recites humorously his hard experiences as claim-holder in Beaver
County, Oklahoma. He resolves to go to Kansas, marry, and "life on
corn-dodgers the rest of his life."

THE DYING COWBOY, ii, 4abcb and 4abcb, 6: A cowboy, shot while gambling,
laments his career and fate, gives warning to his comrades, sends a
farewell to his family and sweetheart, and gives directions for his
funeral.

THE LONE PRAIRIE, 4aabb, 10: A dying cowboy requests that he be buried
not on the lone prairie, but at home beneath the cotton-wood boughs,
near his mother. His comrades ignore his petition. (Cf. The Sailor's
Request.)

THE SA