Music And The Civil War

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Concert Band."2 The newspaper reports
that the popularity of "these concerts have always heretofore drawn crowded
houses.2" In the style of other articles, the paper comments that the
"merit of the music will ensure to the concert an abundant success"2
Musical performances in Franklin County were much the same.
Concerts were frequently given for the benefit of the community.
Socialites flocked to events such as the concert dubbed "The Flower
Queen."3 The concert was a combination of vocal and musical entertainment
in which The Valley Spirit reported that "The audience in attendance was
the largest, and most highly respectable, we have ever seen assembled in
the Hall."3
With the beginning of the Civil War most entertainment and social
gatherings ceased. From 1860-1862 newspaper articles on musical
entertainment could not be found. When concerts resumed in Franklin and
Augusta, in 1863, they were of a much different nature and had objectives
in addition to entertainment.
In ...

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