By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 20, 2012 There is a story (apparently true, from limited checking) that the lively “Dixie” was a favorite tune of President Abraham Lincoln. It was so heavily identified with the Confederacy, though, that it was not sung in the North during the Civil War. After the fall of Richmond, Lincoln requested that it be played again at Washington events. The tune was well known in Mormon Utah, too, and was t...
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