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Anonymous variant lyrics of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", reported in Jean Thomas, Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky (1939), p. 54
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In eighteen hundred and sixty-one, ... That was when the war begun, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Both sides were falling to, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ... Abe Lincoln set the darkies free, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ... Abe called for five hundred thousand more, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-five, They talked rebellion—strife; And we'll all drink stone wine When Johnny comes marching home.

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What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In eighteen hundred and sixty-one, ... That was when the war begun, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Both sides were falling to, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ... Abe Lincoln set the darkies free, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ... Abe called for five hundred thousand more, ... In eighteen hundred and sixty-five, They talked rebellion—strife; And we'll all drink stone wine When Johnny comes marching home." in the context of "Anonymous variant lyrics of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", reported in Jean Thomas, Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky (1939), p. 54" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "American Civil War" (Quotes about the American Civil War) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed February 05, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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American Civil War

About American Civil War

The American Civil War (ACW), also known as the War of the Rebellion, the Great Rebellion, and several other names, was a civil war that was fought in the United States of America from 1861 to 1865. Fearing that the future of slavery was in jeopardy after the election of an anti-slavery U.S. president, eleven slave-holding U.S. states located in the southern United States declared their secession from the country and formed the Confederate States, also known as "the Confederacy", sparking war. Led by Democrat Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States, also known as "the Union", led by Republican Abraham Lincoln, which consisted of every free U.S. state as well as five slave-holding states, known as "border states". In 1865, after four years of warfare, the Confederacy surrendered, and slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by three-fourths of the states.

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