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Tenting Tonight On The Old Campground

The soldier was not forgotten in songs expressing a depth of personal feeling. "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" appealed particularly to them, not as an exciting battle song, but as a description of what they were thinking. Its author was Walter C. Kittredge of New Hampshire. He had been drafted in the Union army in the early months of 1863, and expected soon to leave for the front. He had been a professional singer, so it was natural that, thinking of the coming separation from his wife and daughter, he composed a song expressing his emotion.... But Kittredge did not serve on the battlefield after all. He was rejected for military service on medical grounds. So he joined the famed Hutchinson family of singers and toured with them for twenty years thereafter. The touching and plaintive words..., so perfectly matched to the music, were favorites of both soldiers and civilians. No program of war songs was complete without a quartet rendition of the song.... Every local reunion and meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic and all its national conventions... featured the song, which might appropriately be termed one of the most affecting of the Civil War period. [C. A. Brown (revised by Willard A. Heaps), The Story of Our National Ballads, New York, NY, 1960, pp. 208-210. http://www.folkarchive.de/tenting.html ] Hidden Waters Nature Park is the home to the Callaway Cabin and beautiful nature trails located at the beginning of the Niangua River in the heart of Marshfield. The park has four full-time and numerous sporadic wet weather springs. A trail through the park leads past ponds, waterfalls, bridges over the stream and woodland gardens. Many of the native plants have been reintroduced in the park. An addition to the park is a meadow with adjacent limestone hills and stream. The park allows a true glimpse into the past including the Callaway Cabin which was built in 1853 and is one of the few surviving structures after the devastating 1880 tornado. This five plus acre nature park offers many educational opportunities. http://www.visitmo.com/hidden-waters-...