Tenting on the Old Campground

1st Nebraska closed its program at the Civil War Veterans Museum with the playing of “Tenting on the Old Campground,” an 1863 song by Walter Kittredge expressing the weariness of the soldier and the country with the prolonged Civil War.

The video begins with a one minute narration.

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