Ezekiel's Radio

One of the benefits of listening to classic country every other weekend is finding really nifty songs now and then. For example:

Two young brothers marched away
Two young brothers marched away
Two young brothers marched away
One wore blue and the other wore grey
...
Two girls waiting by the railroad track
Two girls waiting by the railroad track
Two girls waiting by the railroad track
One wore blue and the other wore black

Which made me go out looking in cyberspace for other sad Civil War songs, but what should I end up with but:

Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee!
Hurah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea...

Which- despite knowing all I know about the horrors of Sherman's march through Georgia, and the violence of Reconstruction, the way the old powers-that-were clawed their way back to bring in the Jim Crow laws, etc., etc.- I still felt to be perfectly splendid and heroic. Freedom does beat slavery, as surely as rock beats scissors, whatever the 'Lincolnapoleon' and 'No Blood for Cotton!' people say...