The Campbells Are Coming: Iron Brigade, Gettysburg
The Union's Iron Brigade famously played this while marching down the Emmitsburg Road on their way to McPherson's Ridge at Gettysburg. So this was in all likelihood the last music that many of them ever heard, just prior to doing a very impressive bit of fighting in order to make the world a better place.
- Iron Brigade Immigrants Arrive At Gettysburg
https://longislandwins.com/columns/immigrants-civil-war/iron-brigade-immigrants-arrive-at-gettysburg/
- The Iron Brigade, also known as The Black Hats, Black Hat Brigade, Iron Brigade of the West, and originally King's Wisconsin Brigade was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Although it fought entirely in the Eastern Theater, it was composed of regiments from three Western states that are now within the region of the Midwest. Noted for its strong discipline, its unique uniform appearance and its tenacious fighting ability, the Iron Brigade suffered the highest percentage of casualties of any brigade in the war. The nickname "Iron Brigade", with its connotation of fighting men with iron dispositions...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Brigade
- The Campbells Are Coming" is a Scottish song associated with Clan Campbell.
Chorus:
The Campbells are coming Ho-Ro, Ho-Ro! (repeat)
The Campbells are coming to bonnie Lochleven
The Campbells are coming Ho-Ro, Ho-Ro!
The song was definitely extant by 1745 and perhaps much earlier. It may have been inspired by the war of the Jacobite rising of 1715 (John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll was the loyalist war leader and many Scottish loyalists were Campbells); According to Lewis Winstock the tune accompanied the Scottish loyalist vanguard in the Jacobite war, and Robert Wodrow ascribes that name to one of the bagpipe tunes that accompanied Argyle's Highlanders entrance into Perth and Dundee. Or it may have been concerned with earlier events around the deposing of Mary Queen of Scots: 'Lochleven' presumably refers to Lochleven Castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1567, and 'Great Argyll' may refer to Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll who attempted to rescue her.
The song is commonly attributed to Robert Burns..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campbells_Are_Coming
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I have seen this one here in Wisconsin:
http://www.wisconsinhistoricalmarkers.com/2012/11/marker-312-iron-brigade.html
Thanks for the cool story!
distinctive tall hardee hats. Hello to your wife, keep up the good work. History lovers rock! lol.
As soon as things clear up to visit Civil War sites. I have boycotted visiting many Southern states but told my wife if Georgia goes Blue for these two senates seats its a go!
several places along the coast including Savannah. What a charming city, the brief bit we saw of it. Charleston is beautiful and reminds me of Barbados and Bermuda a bit.
Like many, I'd love to see Georgia go blue; and we need about 100 Stacy Abrams to get this country going in a better direction.
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I loved what I saw of the remote Sea Islands of So. Carolina and Georgia including St. Mary's city near *Cumberland Island accessible by ferry, where JFK Jr. and Caroline B. were married in the 1990s in the small black church there.
That area is rich in old colonial era history with pirates and 'The War of Jenkins Ear,' the 1730s conflict between Brits and the Spanish over turf in southern and Caribbean America.
Also Civil War history. The small coastal town of *Darien, Georgia is depicted in the 1989 movie 'Glory' about US Colored Troops in the Union-occupied SE US, and the famous the Battle of Ft. Wagner in Charleston Harbor, July 1863.
Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) of the 54th Mass. Regiment was ordered to have his black troops burn the town by a Jayhawk Union officier. Shaw opposed the 'immoral order' but had to go through with the action.
In the early 1990s when I curated a museum exhibit on black troops during the Civil War, I learned that Shaw's prominent Boston family paid to have Darien restored post-war. Also that Shaw's sash and sword that he was buried with alongside his black troops at Fort Wagner were returned to his family by a southern soldier after the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien,_Georgia
Happy travels!
