The FIRST Song to be Published in the Confederacy

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Music Sheet, “GOD SAVE THE SOUTH”, written by Earnest Halphin and published in Baltimore by Miller & Beacham, 1861, eight stanzas, 4pp, disbound, VG. The hand colored cover has two 1st National Confederate flags with eleven stars. In small part, “Rebels before, our fathers of yore. Rebel's the righteous name Washington bore. Why, then, be ours the same, the name that he snatched from shame, Making it first in fame, foremost in war. Making it first in fame, foremost in war. ...”If the South can be said to have had a national anthem at all, it would have been "God Save the South." Written early in the war by George H. Miles (a Marylander writing under the pseudonym Earnest Halpin) and set to music by a composer with the marvelous name of Charles Wolfgang Amadeus Ellerbrock (the arranger of "Maryland, My Maryland"), it tempered the martial spirit of Julia Ward Howe's more famous "Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the unwavering conviction that God would come to the aid of the embattled South.

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