Name/Title
Marching Through Georgia and Misc. Other Rare BooksEntry/Object ID
RB 973.7 WORDescription
"Marching Through Georgia", by Henry Clay Work, belonged to Mary B. Shellman. It is inscribed "to Mary from Bessie, Xmas 1888."
"Marching Through Georgia" by Henry Clay Work is a famous Civil War-era song, first published in 1865. Written in celebration of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s military campaign—his “March to the Sea” from Atlanta to Savannah in late 1864—the song became a patriotic anthem for Union supporters. With its rousing melody and triumphant lyrics, it glorified the Union army’s progress through Georgia, the liberation of enslaved people, and the defeat of Confederate forces
