5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D

 

Singing

 

 

 

When marching long distances, it is nice to pass the time by singing.  Here are some songs and lyrics that Civil War soldiers sometimes sang while marching, working, or sitting aroudn the fire.

 

 

 

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC - US MILITARY MARCH 

1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: 
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: 
His TRUTH is marching on. 
(Chorus) 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
His TRUTH is marching on. 

2. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps, 
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; 
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: 
His DAY is marching on. 
(Chorus) 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
His DAY is marching on.

 

3. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: 
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; 
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, 
SINCE GOD is marching on." 
(Chorus) 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
SINCE GOD is marching on.