The Goodloes And The Alabama Waltz

From The Huntsville Historical Review:

"In her book, Loyalty and Loss — Alabama Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Margaret Storey describes many of the incidents of Alabama unionist espionage...".

"...Franklin County planter John C. Goodloe, considered by Federal commanders 'one of the best posted [men] on the south side of the river,’ crossed the river a few times in 1864 with news of Confederate activities."

"The family of John Calvin Goodloe...insisted, on the contrary, that he was a spy for the Confederacy, but had convinced the Yankees that he was a Union man... . The early evidence comes from [his] nephew...who published a book on his wartime experience, Confederate Echoes, in 1907."

"Happily, the research also afforded lagniappes:..."The sheet music, *Alabama Waltz (1835)...was found in an antique store in Huntsville, Alabama in 1991, and traced to its origin in Lexington, Kentucky, where the young Miss Turner [Mrs. John C. Goodloe] was apparently in attendance at a boarding school."

*See picture of the sheet music where the Alabama Waltz was dedicated to Miss Harriet Turner.

Beuregard's Grand Marche

From Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle:

Received a piece of music this morning-- "Beauregard's Grand Marche"  How much more can I apreciate it-- knowing it comes from a member of the memorable "Fourth Ala Reg"--

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Music To My Ears

"Miss Campanula," ended Mr. Copeland, "will play Rachmaninoff's Prelude In C Sharp Minor."
Down it came.  Pom.  Pom.  POM.
The three familiar pretentious chords.

Those were lines in Ngaio Marsh's Overture to Death.  Thanks to YouTube, I could listen to those three chords which helped to envision the scene.