Music and Poetry

• "The Cumberland and the Merrimac" (words with midi tune)
• "Monitor and Merrimac" (words with midi tune)
• "The Iron Merrimac" See this note about the tune. See below for versions from the Library of Congress. You can download it for free from Amazon.
• "Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel" (Mentions Drury's Bluff battle)
• "The Cumberland Crew" (words with midi tune)
• About "The Cumberland Crew" (portion of 2.3MB file)
• About "The Cumberland" (portion of 2.3MB file)
• "The Cumberland" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Better Times are Coming" by Stephen C. Foster.
• "Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel" (re: Druary's Bluff. words, anonymous; tune Daniel Decatur Emmett)
• "Iron Navy"
• Sheet music at the Library of Congress
  • Monitor and Merrimac. Air--Yankee Doodle Dandy. Johnson, Song Publisher, &c., Phila. [n. d.]
  • The Monitor and Merrimac. Air: "Wait for the wagon." Published at 109 Nassau-street. N. Y. [n. d.]
  • Monitor and the Merrimac. Air- Yankee Doodle Dandy. R. H. Singleton, Bookseller, &c., Nashville, Tenn. [n. d.]
• CD/Cassette Recording available from the Library of Congress
  • Songs and Ballads of American History (The Iron Merrimac, The Cumberland's Crew) From 1937-1949. Sung by Judge Learned Hand. CD is from Rounder Records, where you can get sound samples Also on Cassette AFS L 29
  • A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (The Iron Merrimac). CD is from Rounder Records where you can get sound samples. A review of the CD talks about Judge Learned Hand.

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