POV: You're a Civil War soldier (Union or Confederate, it doesn't really matter) marching through an endless swamp wearing a sweat-soaked wool uniform on your way to some unspecified place where ...

Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...