Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers,
Furl it with an iron will;
Furl it now, but--keep it still,
Think not that its work is done.
Keep it 'till your children take it,
Once again to hail and make it
All their sires have bled and fought for,
All their noble hearts have sought for,
Bled and fought for all alone.
All alone! aye, shame the story.
Millions here deplore the stain,
Shame, alas! for England's glory,
Freedom called, and called in vain.
Furl that banner, sadly, slowly,
Treat it gently, for 'tis holy:
'Till that day--yes, furl it sadly,
Then once more unfurl it gladly--
Conquered banner--keep it still!
[Illustration]
INDEX.
_INDEX TO TITLES._
A Confederate Officer to his Lady Love, 42
Address of the Women to the Southern Troops, 24
Alabama, 170
Allons Enfans, 4
All Quiet along the Potomac to-night, 62
An Old Texan's Appeal, 174
A North Carolina Call to Arms, 237
Another Yankee Doodle, 15
Arise! ye Sons of Free-Born Sires!, 175
A Southern Song, 41, 99
A Southern Woman's Song, 222
At Fort Pillow, 137
Awake! To arms in Texas, 166
Banks' Skedaddle, 164
Battle of the Mississippi, 102
Battle Song, 240
Battle Song of the Invaded, 57
Baylor's Partisan Rangers, 178
Bayou City Guards' Dixie, 143
Bayou City Guards' Song, 131
Bombardment and Battle of Galveston, 191
Bombardment of Vicksburg, 343
Boys! Keep Your Powder Dry, 130
Bull Run, 38
By the Banks of Red River, 300
Call All! Call All!, 14
Campaign Ballad, 155
Camp Douglas by the Lake, 306
Cannon Song, 77
Carolina, 124
Chivalrous C. S. A., 78
Confederate Land, 48
Confederate Song, 94
Dear Mother, I've Come Home to Die, 349
Death of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, 187
Death of Stonewall Jackson, 345
De Cotton Down in Dixie, 145
Dixie, 238
Dixie's Land, 36
Do they Miss Me in the Trenches, 129
Dutch Volunteer, 10
Duty and Defiance, 141
Elegy on the Death of Lieut.-Col. Ch. B. Dreux, 37
Flight of Doodles, 66
Fold it up Carefully, 375
For Bales, 112
Freedom's New Banner, 30
Gathering Song, 40
Gay and Happy, 177
General Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness, 224
General Tom Green, 194
God Bless our Southern Land, 188
God Save the South, 1
God Will Defend the Right, 264
Goober Peas, 74
Hard Times, 196
Here's Your Mule, 319
Hood's Old Brigade, 207
Hood's Texas Brigade, 228
Hurrah!, 39
I'm a Good Old Rebel, 260
I'm Thinking of the Soldier, 182
Imogen, 172
Independence Day, 65
In Memoriam, 311
I Remember the Hour When Sadly We Parted, 291
I Wish I was in Dixie's Land, 153
Jackson's Resignation, 232
Knitting for the Soldiers, 52
Ladies, To the Hospital, 116
Land of King Cotton, 68
Land of the South, 115
Lee at the Wilderness, 95
Little Giffin, 329
Missouri, 308
Morgans War Song, 110, 244
Mother! Is the Battle Over?, 236
My Heart's in Mississippi, 211
My Maryland, 276
My Noble Warrior Come!, 226
My Warrior Boy, 256
National Hymn, 247
New Red, White and Blue, 60
North Carolina's War Song, 80
No Surrender, 221
Off with your Gray Suits, Boys!, 369
Oh, No! He'll not Need Them Again, 309
O, Johnny Bull, My Jo, John, 109
Old Stonewall, 338
Only a Soldier, 333
On to Glory, 199
Our Braves in Virginia, 56
Our Country's Call, 76
Our Flag; or, the Origin of the Stars and Bars, 292
Our Glorious Flag, 159
Over the River, 241, 249
Patriotic Song, 55
Polk, 350
Pop goes the Weasel, 27
Pray, Maiden, Pray, 284
Private Maguire, 250
Pro Memora, 353
Rallying Song of the Virginians, 26
Reading the List, 86
Rebel is a Sacred Name, 71
Rebel Toasts; or, Drink it Down, 279
Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel, 268
Richmond on the James, 266
Riding a Raid, 315
Sabine Pass, 320
Short Rations; or The Corn-fed Army, 322
Soldier, I Stay to Pray for Thee, 150
Song, 262
Song for the South, 103
Song of Hooker's Picket, 218
Song of the Exile, 245
Song of the Privateer, 227
Song of the Snow, 59
Song of the South, 114
Song of the Southern Soldier, 104
Song of the Texas Rangers, 287
Southern Battle Song, 189
Southern Cross, 6
Southern Gathering Song, 46
Southern Marseillaise, 45
Southern Soldier Boy, 69
Southern Song, 252
Southern Song of Freedom, 12
Southern War Cry, 35
Southron's War Song, 51
Southron's Chant of Defiance, the, 8
Star of the West, the, 7
Stonewall Jackson, 251
Stonewall Jackson's Way, 200
Stonewall's Requiem, 328
Stuart, 331
Sweethearts and the War, 230
That Bugler, 22
The Band in the Pines, 255
The Banner Song, 83
The Bars and Stars, 88
The Battle of Galveston, 185
The Battle of Shiloh Hill, 326
The Battle Song of the South, 210
The Beloved Memory of Major-General Tom Green, 203
The Black Flag, 163
The Bonnie Blue Flag, 31
The Bonnie White Flag, 341
The Capture of Seventeen of Company H, 4th Texas Cavalry, 168
The Cavalier's Glee, 261
The Confederate Note, 370
The Confederate Oath, 142
The Contraband, 216
The Conquered Banner, 373
The Cotton Burner's Song, 214
The Countersign, 133
The Darlings at Home, 134
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, 336
The Dying Soldier Boy, 106
The Faded Gray Jacket, 358
The Flag of the Southland, 198
The Funeral of Albert Sidney Johnston, 212
The Gallant Girl that Smote the Dastard Tory, Oh!, 281
The Homespun Dress, 81
The Horse Marines at Galveston, 180
The Hour Before Execution, 160
The Man of the Twelfth of May, 242
The Mother's Farewell, 28
The Navasota Volunteers, 294
The Officer's Funeral, 289
The Officers of Dixie, 301
The Poor Soldier, 340
The Rebel Band, 258
The Rebel's Dream, 352
The Sentinel's Dream of Home, 303
The Soldier's Amen, 318
The Soldier's Death, 290
The Soldier's Dream, 297
The Soldier's Farewell, 324
The Soldier's Mission, 149
The Soldier's Suit of Gray, 285
The South, 339
The Southern Banner, 108
The Southern Captive, 346
The Southern Flag, 91
The Southern Soldier Boy, 260
The South for Me, 123
The South our Country, 152
The Southron's Watchword, 272
The Stars and the Bars, 93
The Sword of Robert Lee, 367
The Texan Marseillaise, 100
The Toast of Morgan's Men, 317
The Volunteer, 85
The Volunteer; or, It is my Country's Call, 347
The Young Volunteer, 73
There's Life in the Old Land yet, 273
Three Cheers for our Jack Morgan, 282
To the Davis Guard, 120
True Heart Southrons, 317
True to the Gray, 363
Vicksburg Song, 126
War Song, 61, 90, 122
Wearin' of the Gray, 356
Wearing of the Gray, 366
We Conquer or Die, 263
We Know That We Were Rebels; or Why Can We Not Be Brothers, 364
We Left Him on the Field, 234
We'll Be Free in Maryland, 49
We Swear, 29
When the Boys Come Home, 334
Would'st Thou Have me Love Thee, 20
Yankee Vandals, 314
"Ye Men of Alabama,", 17
You are Going to the Wars, Willie, Boy!, 275
1776-1861, 19
_INDEX TO AUTHORS._
Alexander, (Capt.) G. W., 69
Ball, (Mrs.) C. A., 358
Barnes, (Mrs.) Wm., 194
Bigney, M. F., 272
Blackford, Capt., 261
Blackmar, A. E., 4
Bowers, E., 349
Brown, Reuben E., 174
Caplen, (Mrs.) L. E., 185
Carnes, (Rev.) J. E., 155
Cave, (Major) E. W., 198
Collins, P. E., 210
Cooke, John Esten, 255
Cross, (Mrs.) J. T. H., 24
Cummins, Alex. A., 227
Cunningham, A. B., 106, 290
Cunningham, (Lieut.) W. P., 120
Dasher, C. D., 338
Duke, (Gen.) Basil, 110
Emmett, Dan. D., 153
Ezzell, S. R., 191
Falligant, Lieut., 369
Falligant, Robert, 242
Flash, H. L., 350
Fontaine, (Major) Lamar, 62, 333
Forshey, (Col.) C. G., 134
French, L. Virginia, 46
Grason, (Miss) Maria, 41
Griswold, (Capt.) E., 247
Haines, James, 100
Hawkins (Col.), W. S., 108, 341
Hayne, Paul H., 163
Haynes, W. A., 88
Hewitt, John H., 275
Hewett, John M., 73
Hobby, (Capt.) Edwin, 203
Hobby, (Col.) A. M., 303
Holtz, R. E., 49
Houghton, (Bart.) Sir Henry, 375
Houston, (Capt.) Sam, 346
Jones, (Miss) Maria E., 160, 234, 249
Ketchum, Annie C., 40
Kercheval, A. W., 284
Kidd, E. E., 300
Knight, A. G., 22
Leonard, A. F., 115
Leovy, A. F., 352
Lorrimer, Laura, 170
Magruder, (Maj-Gen.) J. B., 172
Marshall, Jas. B., 83
McCarthy, Harry, 31, 292, 308, 347
McKnight, Major ("Asa Hartz"), 42
Meek, Alex. B., 20
Miles, Geo. H., 1
Milror, George B., 187
Moore, (Miss) Mollie E., 95, 207, 311
Morris, A. E., 175
Morse, A. W., 149
Neeby, Anna Marie, 266
Neely, Wm., 294
Norfolk, Virginia, 241
Paine, (Dr.) John W., 55
Pender, A., 74
Phelan, John D., 17
Pierpont, Jas., 263
Pike, Albert, 238
Porter, Ina M., 353
Prentice, Clarence, 364
Preston, (Mrs.) M. J., 59
Randall, Jas. B., 273
Randall, Jas. R., 37, 276
Raymond, Eugene, 282
Rivers, Pearl, 363
Ryan, Father, 260
Ryan, (Rev.) J. A., 373
Signaigo, Jo Augustine, 68
Sinclair, (Miss) Carrie Bell, 285
Smith, Mary E., 182
Smith, M. B., 196, 326
Strawbridge, H. H., 48
Sulzner, Fr., 297
Tally, Susan A., 26
Thompson, E. M., 152
Thompson, Jeff., 60
Thorpe, (Capt.), 317
Thovington, J. S., 150
Ticknor, (Dr.) Francis O., 329
Townsend, Dan. E., 30
Tucker, St. Geo., 6
Turner, (Miss) J., 370
Upshur, Mary J., 52
Vose, (Mrs.) Henry J., 331
Waginer, J. A., 41
Wailes, (Capt.) E. Lloyd, 94
Walther, H., 76
Warfield, C. A., 8
Washington, (Col.) Hamilton, 141
Wilson, Mary L., 178
Woodcock, J. H., 122
Wright, (Capt.) J. W. A., 126
Young, (Mrs.) J. D., 287
Young, (Mrs.) M. J., 320
INDEX TO FIRST LINES.
A farmer came to camp, one day, with milk and eggs to sell, 319
A flash from the edge of a hostile trench, 350
Aha! a song for the trumpet's tongue, 77
Alas! the rolling hours pass slow, 133
A life on the Vicksburg bluff, 126
All quiet along the Potomac to-night, 62
A nation has sprung into life, 12
Arise! Arise! with main and might, 51
Arise! Ye sons of freeborn sires, arise! your country save, 175
As a couple of good soldiers were walking one day, 318
A soldier boy from Texas lay gasping on the field, 266
At Bull Run, when the sun was low, 38
A warrior has fallen! a chieftain has gone, 194
Away down South in de fields of cotton, 36
Bob Roebuck is my sweetheart's name, 69
Bravely ye've fought, my gallant, gallant men, 241
By blue Patapsco's billowy dash, 273
By the cross upon our banner--glory of our Southern sky, 142
Can'st tell who lose the battle oft in the council field, 130
Cheer, boys, cheer! we'll march away to battle, 244
Childhood's days have long since faded, 306
Come, all ye sons of freedom, 252
Come all ye temper'd hearts of steel--come, quit your flocks and farms,
174
Come, all ye valiant soldiers, and a story I will tell, 326
Come, brothers! rally for the right, 40
Come! come! come, 61
Come, stack arms, men! pile on the rails, 200
Countrymen of Washington, 35
Darkies, has you seed my massa, 216
Dear mother, I remember well, 349
Do they miss me in the trenches, do they miss me, 129
Down by the valley, 'mid thunder and lightning, 228
Ever constant, ever true, 221
Fair ladies and maids of all ages, 322
Fearlessly the seas we roam, 227
Fighting for our rights now, feasting when they're won, 131
Flag of the Southland! Flag of the free, 198
Fold away all your bright tinted dresses, 116
Fold it up carefully, lay it aside, 358
Forth from its scabbard pure and bright, 367
For sixty days and upward a storm of shell and shot, 343
For trumpet and drum, leave the soft voice of maiden, 317
From Houston City and Brazos bottom, 143
Furl that banner, for 'tis weary, 373
Gallant nation, foiled by numbers, 375
God bless our Southern land, 188
God save the South, 1
Halt! the march is over, 59
Hark! the clock strikes! All, all that now remains, 160
Hark! the tocsin is sounding, my comrades, 324
Hark! 'tis the shrill trumpet calling, 289
Haste thee, falter not, noble patriot band, 149
Have you counted up the cost, 240
Hear the summons, sons of Texas, 178
Hear ye not the sound of battle, 166
He fell and they cried, bring us home our dead!, 212
Ho, gallants, brim the beaker bowl, 281
Hurrah! for the Southern confederate State, 39
Hurrah for the South, the glorious South! the land of song and story, 114
Huzza! huzza! let's raise the battle-cry, 122
I am dreaming of thee, 297
I cannot listen to your words, the land is long and wide, 363
I come from old Manassas, with a pocket full of fun, 66
If ever I consent to be married, 99
I leave my home, and thee, dear, with sorrow at my heart, 347
I'll sing you a song of the South's sunny clime, 78
I'm a soldier, you see, that oppression has made, 104
I'm gwine back to de land of cotton, 145
I'm 'nation tired of being hired, 218
In the land of the orange groves, sunshine and flowers, 203
I remember the hour when sadly we parted, 291
"Is there any news of the war?" she said, 86
It vos in Ni Orleans City, 10
It was on a New Year's morn so soon, 180
I've seen some handsome uniforms deck'd off with buttons bright, 285
I wish I was in de land o' cotton, 7
I wish I was in de land ob cotton, 153
Just listen awhile, and give ear to my song, 196
King Abraham is very sick, 27
Kneel, ye Southrons, kneel and swear, 29
Knitting for the soldiers, 52
Lady, I go to fight for thee, 150
Land of our birth, thee, thee I sing, 210
Land of the South! the fairest land, 115
Let me whisper in your ear, sir, 301
Like the roar of the wintry surges on a wild tempestuous strand, 163
Little do rich people know, 340
Lo! the Southland queen emerging, 353
Lo! when Mississippi rolls, 214
Maiden, pray for thy lover now, 284
March, march on, brave "Palmetto" boys, 90
'Mid her ruins proudly stands, 124
Missouri is the pride of the Nation, 60
Missouri! Missouri! bright land of the West, 308
Mother! is the battle over? thousands have been killed, they say, 236
My heart in its sadness turns fondly to thee, 339
My heart is in Mississippi, 211
My love reposes on a rosewood frame, 42
Now let the thrilling anthem rise, 247
Now rouse ye, gallant comrades all, 26
O band in the pinewood cease!, 255
"Och, its nate to be captain or colonel", 250
Of all the mighty nations in the East or in the West, 103
Off with gray suits, boys!, 369
Oh, dear its shameful, I declare, 230
Oh! Dixie, the land of King Cotton, 68
Oh, don't you remember old Stonewall, my boys, 338
Oh! Freedom is a blessed thing, 65
Oh, gone is the soul from his wondrous dark eye, 300
Oh! here I am in the land of cotton, 245
Oh! here's to South Carolina! drink it down, 279
Oh! Johnny, dear, and did you hear the news that's lately spread, 356
Oh! mother of States and of men, 331
Oh no! no! he'll not need them again, 309
Oh! say can you see through the gloom and the storms, 6
Oh! the tocsin of war still resounds o'er the land, 88
Oh! yes, I am a Southern girl, 81
O, Johnny Bull, my Jo, John! I wonder what you mean, 109
O, I'm a good old rebel, 360
O, I'm thinking of the soldier as the evening shadows fall, 182
Old Eve she did the apple eat, 258
On a bright May morn in 'Sixty-three, 345
"Only a soldier!" I heard them say, 333
On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground the dead and wounded lay, 336
O, tell me not that earth is fair, that spring is in its bloom, 226
O, the South is the queen of all nations, 93
Our cannons' mouths are dumb. No more our volleyed muskets peal, 366
Our country, our country, oh, where may we find, 152
Our flag is unfurl'd and our arms flash bright, 73
Out of the focal and foremost fire, 329
Over the river there are fierce stern meetings, 249
Over vale and over mountain, 170
Pillow his head on his flashing sword, 311
Raise the Southern flag on high!, 189
Raise the thrilling cry, to arms!, 141
Rally round our country's flag!, 94
Rebel is a sacred name, 71
Representing nothing on God's earth now, 370
Rise, rise, mountain and valley men, 55
Sabine Pass! in letters of gold, 320
Sing ho! for the Southerner's meteor flag, 108
Sitting by the roadside on a Summer day, 74
Softly comes the twilight stealing gently through my prison bars, 346
Softly in dreams of repose, 352
Soldiers! raise your banner proudly, 120
Sons of freedom, on to glory, 199
Sons of the South arise, 264
Sons of the South, arouse to battle, 100
Sons of the South awake to glory, 4
Sons of the South, beware the foe, 46
Sons of the South! from hill and dale, 19
Southern men, unsheathe the sword, 24
Southrons, hear your country call you, 238
States of the South! confederate land, 48
Stitch, stitch, stitch, 222
The boys are coming home again, 335
The boys down South in Dixie's Land, 49
The despot's heel is on thy shore, 276
The foe! the foe! They come! they come!, 57
The hour was sad I left the maid, 85
The morning star is paling, the camp-fires flicker low, 287
The muffled drum is beating, 328
The night-cloud had lowered o'er Shiloh's red plain, 290
The Northern abolition vandals, 314
The sentinel treads his martial round, 134
The shades of night were falling fast, 22
The snow is in the cloud, and night is gathering o'er us, 282
The South for me! The sunny clime, 123
The sun sinking o'er the battle plain, 187
The tyrant's broad pennant is floating, 102
The war drum is beating, prepare for the fight, 263
The Yankees hate the Lone Star State, because she did secede, 191
There he stood, the grand old hero, great Virginia's god-like son, 224
There is freedom on each fold, and each star is freedom's throne, 159
Though we're a band of prisoners, 341
Thou hast gone forth, my darling one, 256
Three cheers for the Southern flag, 91
'Tis dead of night, nor voice, nor sound, breaks on the stillness of the
air, 303
'Tis old Stonewall, the rebel, that leans on his sword, 315
To arms! oh! men in all our Southern clime, 76
'Twas a terrible moment, 95
'Twas early in the morning of eighteen sixty-three, 168
'Twas midnight when we built our fires, 207
'Twas on that dark and fearful morn, 185
Unclaimed by the land that bore us, 317
Unmoved in the battle, 251
Upon Manassas' bloody plain a soldier boy lay dying, 106
Up, up with the banner, the foe is before us, 83
Wake! dearest, wake! 'tis thy lover who calls, Imogen, 172
We all went down to New Orleans, 112
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, 31
Weep, Louisiana, weep! thy gallant dead, 37
We have ridden from the brave southwest, 56
We leave our pleasant homesteads, 80
We left him on the crimson'd field, 234
Well, we can whip them now I guess, 232
We're the boys so gay and happy, 177
We're the Navasota volunteers, our county is named Grimes, 294
What shall the Southron's watchword be, 272
When clouds of oppression o'ershaded, 30
When history tells her story, 242
While crimson drops our hearth-stones stain, 41
Whoop! the Doodles have broken loose, 14
Why can we not be brothers? the battle now is o'er, 364
Would'st thou have me love thee, dearest, 20
Would you like to hear my song, I'm afraid it's rather long, 268
Yankee Doodle had a mind, 15
Ye men of Alabama, 17
Ye men of Southern hearts and feeling, 45
Ye sons of Carolina! awake from your dreaming, 237
Ye sons of the South, take your weapons in hand, 110
You are going to leave me, darling, 28
You are going to the wars, Willie boy, Willie boy, 275
You can never win us back, 8
You know the Federal General Banks, 164
Young as the youngest who donned the gray, 260
Young Florida sends forth her clan--the old Dominion's brave, 155
Young stranger, what land claims thy birth, 292
You shudder as you think upon th' carnage of the grim report, 137
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This was the first song published in the South during the war.
[2] The Rebel ram.
[3] A writer, describing the siege of Vicksburg, gives the following:
"The meal issued to the army was very coarse, and there were no
sieves, and the beef, as a general thing, was hardly fit to feed to a
dog. Some herds of Texas steers were corraled near the town, lean,
gaunt, long-horned, repulsive looking creatures, and every morning the
weakest of the herd were slaughtered for the day's rations. In the
Twentieth Alabama, each day a company of men could be seen having in
their hands long ox-horns, upon which they occasionally blew a
mournful blast, as with solemn steps and slow, they bore to a suitable
burial place the beef issued to them for that day. Arrived at the spot
a hole was dug, the meat was dumped into it, a mound was heaped over
it, a funeral oration was said, the ox-horns once more sounded the
dolorous requiem, and then the mourners returned to camp, their heads
bowed down with grief and sorrow. Upon inquiring what this woeful
pageant meant, I was informed that the men were simply engaged in "the
burial of _Old Logan_."
[4] Colonel J. J. Archer.
[5] This thrilling song was circulated _sub rosa_ in New Orleans, and at
times almost openly. Its bold and defiant tone shows it to have been
written by one who must have suffered greatly at the hands of Butler.
[6] The Cotton Supply Association, of Manchester, England.
[7] A touching incident occurred in Montgomery at the beginning of the
war. A soldier met a lovely and refined lady in the street, and feeling
that in such times we are all sisters and brothers, and wishing to do
homage to such beauty, he touched his hat and said: "Lady, I'm going to
fight for you." "Sir," she instantly replied, "I am going to pray for
you."
[8] Constitutional Liberty against Oppression--a "Cause" decided many
times in the Old World, yet to be taught in the New.
[9] The Memphis _Appeal_ published the following:--"On yesterday all the
cotton in Memphis was burned. Probably not less than 300,000 bales have
been burned in the last three days in West Tennessee and North
Mississippi."
[10] Capt. Riley commanded a battery composed of Irishmen from North
Carolina, and was nearly always attached to Hood's Brigade. The "swarthy
old hounds" refer to his Napoleon guns.
[11] In commemoration of Gen. J. B. Gordon's charge against Hancock's
corps at Spotsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864.
[12] Fremont, "the path-finder."
[13] Battle of Cedar Run.
[14] Sung by Harry McCarthy, in his "Personation Concerts," in all the
principal towns of the Confederacy.
[15] On the morning of the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, Major General
Patrick Cleburne, while riding along the line, encouraging his men, saw an
old friend--a captain in his command--barefooted, and feet bleeding.
Alighting from his horse he told the Captain to "please" pull off his
boots. Upon the Captain doing so, the General told him to try them on,
which he did. Whereupon the General mounted his horse, telling the Captain
he was tired of wearing boots, and could well do without them. He would
hear of no remonstrance, and bidding the Captain good-by, rode away. In
this condition he was killed.
[16] Brave to a fault, he was cut down in his early youth, and fell a
willing sacrifice at the altar of his country. Among his last words he
said, "I fell beside my gun."
[17] The chorus is sung to the second part of the air, excepting after the
fifth and sixth verses.
[18] Several weeks after the commencement of the terrific bombardment,
ladies were seen coolly walking the streets, and children in many parts of
the city engaged, as ever, in their playing, only stopping their sport for
the moment to gaze and listen at the bursting shells.
[19] The above lines were found written upon the back of a five-hundred
dollar Confederate note, subsequent to the surrender.