We'll Hang Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree

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"We'll Hang Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree". New words created and sung by Union soldiers to the tune of "John Brown's Body". This version appeared before Julia Ward Howe used the tune for "The Battle Hymn of The Republic".

From "The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 321.
 
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