As the only major civil disagreement to take hold of our newly formed union (as of 1861), the American Civil War continues to induce contention among our nation's citizens. Young America, not even 100 years old at the time of the Civil War, would rally hundreds of thousands of citizens to fight on both sides of a national conflict. During this period, military forces used music in a number of ways celebrating battles hard won and lost, memories of the fallen and missing, as propaganda for enlistment, and, ultimately, as a celebratory score for the Union victory over the Southern Confederacy. This exhibition strives to emphasize the importance of the Civil War as a culturally and politically important national event with emphasis on the musical scores, lyrics and other ephemera developed and used heavily during the period of the Civil War (1861-1865). The featured items are specifically composed or feature women figures, citizens often ignored in the discussion about Civil War America. Due to the length of this period and the amount of material produced specifically for the war, the exhibition will focus on materials popular in both the Southern and Northern areas during the conflict, with consideration paid to those pieces played on the battlefields for troops and musical scores heard in the homes of civilians at the time