O IM A GOOD OLD REBEL

The Civil War was not back that far. I am reminded that the Beebe house I live in was built in the 1830's. This Connecticut mill town here was going strong thirty years after that,during the Civil War, putting out woolen fabric for the Yankees, no doubt.

Elsewhere, just after the war, there were some gloomy ex-rebels who clung to the old southern cause that they fought so hard for. I scanned a reprint that I got from a Virginia friend, it is a true folk song that was sung by a weary rebel just after the war, not too happy about the USA.