Legacy
The music derived from this war was of greater quantity and variety than from any other war involving America. Songs came from a variety of sources. Battle Hymn of the Republic borrowed its tune from a song sung at Methodist revivals. Dixie was a minstrel song that Daniel Emmett adapted from two Ohio black singers named Snowden. American soldiers would continue to sing Battle Hymn of the Republic in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.
The Southern rock style of music has often used the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of the musical style. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd was described as a "vivid example of a lingering Confederate mythology in Southern culture".
A ballad from the war, Aura Lee, would become the basis of the song Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley. Presley also sang An American Trilogy, which was described as "smoothing" out All My Trials, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and Dixie of its divisions, although Dixie still dominated the piece.
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