"Toll O mournfully the bell,
Chant the dirge and ring the knell,
Let it throb and rise and swell,
Up to Heaven, up to the goal,
Of our martyred patriot's soul."]]>
This is Donizetti's famous funeral march from his opera Dom Sebastian, which premiered in 1843.


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Composer, "Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst," was Susan McFarland Parkhurst, a friend of Stephen Foster's and the author of several Civil War songs. She began composing after her husband died in the war in 1864.]]>
"Before everything but the republic he chastely dropped his eyes" "He was the marble lover of liberty" - Les Miserables.

Enjolras is a fictional charector in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. He is a revolutionary an defender of republican ideals.]]> th 1863)."

Governor Curtin organized the effort to create a national soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg.]]>
Comparing them to the venomous snake, Republicans coined the word "Copperhead" in denunciation of those Northern Democrats who opposed the war and favored peace with the South.]]>