Mormon Battalion Song (II -- In Forty-Six We Bid Adieu), The

DESCRIPTION: "In '46 we bid adieu To loving friends and kindred too, For one year's service, one and all... In these hard times." They march for Fort Leavenworth. The colonel dies. They march on. They hope God will bring them home to friends "And have good times"
AUTHOR: Azariah Smith (source: Cheney-MormonSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1881 (Tyler)
KEYWORDS: soldier hardtimes travel | Mormon Battalion
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 41-42, "The Mormon Battalion Song" (1 text)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 259-260, "(Song)" (1 excerpt)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 284, "The Mormon Battalion" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Daniel Tyler, "A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War," no publisher listed but copyrighted 1881 (available on Google Books), pp. 287-289, "(Song)" (1 text)
Roud #10820
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Mormon Battalion Song (I)" (subject) and notes and references there
File: ChMS047

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