Trivia 9-4-2020 Attempted Arson & Bonus

[Trivia Master]

A group of Southern operatives attempted to burn down New York City at the end of the Civil War. What name did the arsonists use to refer to their group?

credit: @luinrina

Bonus:

On the morning after the fight at Laurel Hill, General U.S. Grant came riding past the littered slopes to a new headquarters site. A fife and drum corps saw him coming and struck up a rollicking little tune. Nearby soldiers heard the tune and immediately started cheering and laughing. Grant, who was tone deaf (he had a joke about himself; he only knew two tunes, one was Yankee Doodle and the other wasn't), asked what the band was playing to cause all this commotion. The aide explained it was a popular camp-meeting ditty which the whole army was familiar with.
Question: What was the name of the tune ?

credit: @warbird43

 

[Pete Longstreet]

Confederate Army of Manhattan

 

[hughes]

Confederate Army of Manhattan

BONUS: Ain't I glad to get Out of the the Wilderness

 

[ErnieMac]

Main question:
What name did the arsonists use to refer to their group? Confederate Army of Manhattan.

Confederate Army of Manhattan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Bonus:
What was the name of the tune? Ain't I glad to get out of the wilderness!
Source: A Stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton, pg 111.

 

[JeffFromSyracuse]

The Confederate Army of Manhattan

"Ain't I Glad to Get Out Ob De Wilderness" (Source - Rhea, The Battles for Spotsylvania CH and the Road to Yellow Tavern, Page 67)

 

[luinrina]

Regular question:
Credit for me, please and thank you. I hope this was an easy find for everyone.


Bonus:
I'm not finding anything but the following scene:

But it took place on the morning of the fight of Laurel Hill, not the morning after. The morning after the fight at Laurel Hill, Sedgwick was killed, and there's nothing about a rollicking little tune in Porter's book for the morning of May 9. Same with the bio on Grant from Brooks Simpson, Lyman's letters and Gordon Rhea's Battles for Spotsylvania Court House. And Charles A. Dana didn't meet up with them until after that scene, according to Porter, and there's nothing in Dana's Recollections either.

So, since in my opinion the scene I found fits the question asked, my answer is that "Ain't I glad to get out of the Wilderness" is the name of the tune.

Source: Horace Porter Campaigning with Grant (p. 83)

 

[gentlemanrob]

Main Question: Confederate Army of Manhattan

Bonus: Battle Hymn of the Republic - Just a guess

 

[Brenal]

The Confederate Army of Manhattan.

Bonus:
"Ain't I glad to get out of the Wilderness."

 

[stuart1861]

- The Confederate Army of Manhattan

 

[connecticut yankee]

Confederate Army of Manhattan

 

[stuart1861]

Bonus: Ain't I Glad To Get Out of the Wilderness

 

[Ole Miss]

The Confederate Army of Manhattan
Bonus
Ain't I Glad I've Got Out the Wilderness!
Regards
David

 

[WJC]

A group of Southern operatives attempted to burn down New York City at the end of the Civil War. What name did the arsonists use to refer to their group?

credit: @luinrina

The Confederate Army of Manhattan.
Source: "Confederate Army of Manhattan", Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Army_of_Manhattan

Bonus:

On the morning after the fight at Laurel Hill, General U.S. Grant came riding past the littered slopes to a new headquarters site. A fife and drum corps saw him coming and struck up a rollicking little tune. Nearby soldiers heard the tune and immediately started cheering and laughing. Grant, who was tone deaf (he had a joke about himself; he only knew two tunes, one was Yankee Doodle and the other wasn't), asked what the band was playing to cause all this commotion. The aide explained it was a popular camp-meeting ditty which the whole army was familiar with.
Question: What was the name of the tune ?

credit: @warbird43

Ain't I Glad to Get out of the Wilderness.
Source: Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox. (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1953), p. 111.

 

[Llewellyn]

Confederate Army of Manhattan.

 

[Poorville]

Confederate Army of Manhattan
Source: https://wiki2.org/en/Confederate_Army_of_Manhattan

"Ain't I Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness!"
There are some slight variations on this title, but this is as quoted in the sources below:
A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy by Bruce Catton, also online:

A Stillness at Appomattox

Recounting the final year of the Civil War, this classic volume by Bruce Catton won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in non-fiction.In this final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Catton, America's foremost Civil War historian, takes the reader through...

books.google.co.uk

 

[Michigander]

1. The Confederate Army of Manhattan
Source

Bonus: "Ain't I glad to get out of the Wilderness!"
Source

 

[JOHN42768]

Main: "Coperheads" The arsonist were members of the Confederate Secret Service using "Greek Fire"
source: https://www.thoughtco.com/confederate-plot-to-burn-new-york-1773710

Bonus to follow:

 

[warbird43]

Primary Question: The Confederate Army of Manhattan

Bonus Question: Credit

 

[DBF]

Question
The group of eight men called themselves "Confederate Army of Manhattan".
https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/CivilWar/BurningOfNewYork

Bonus
According to what I found in Horace Porter's Book "Campaigning with Grant" it was a negro camp meeting air "Ain't I glad to get out ob de Wilderness."
Porter's Book - Page 83
Source - lyrics

 

[sarladaise]

The Confederate Army of Manhattan

Bonus:

"Ain't I glad to get out of the wilderness!"