The Civil War

Musical

Writers: Frank Wildhorn Gregory Boyd

Songs

Act 1

  • A House Divided – The Citizens
  • Freedom's Child – Frederick Douglass and Abolitionists
  • By The Sword / Sons of Dixie – The Armies
  • Tell My Father – Private Sam Taylor
  • The Peculiar Institution – The Enslaved
  • If Prayin' Were Horses – Clayton Toler and Bessie Toler
  • Greenback – Autolycus Fell, Mabel and Violet
  • Missing You (My Bill) – Sarah McEwen
  • Judgment Day – Captain Billy Pierce, Captain Emmett Lochran, Private Sam Taylor and The Armies
  • Father, How Long? – Clayton Toler
  • Someday – Harriet Jackson, Bessie Toler and Others
  • I'll Never Pass This Way Again – Corporal Henry Stewart
  • How Many Devils? – The Armies

Act 2

  • Virginia – Captain Billy Pierce
  • Candle in the Window – Harriet Jackson
  • Oh! Be Joyful! – Autolycus Fell, Sergeant Byron Richardson, Private Conrad Bock and Private Elmore Hotchkiss
  • The Hospital – Mrs. Bixby, Nurse, Union Soldiers and Clayton Toler
  • If Prayin' Were Horses (Reprise) – Clayton Toler and Bessie Toler
  • River Jordan – Benjamin Reynolds and Others
  • Sarah – Corporal William McEwen
  • The Honor of Your Name – Sarah McEwen
  • Greenback (Reprise) – Autolycus Fell and Violet
  • Northbound Train – Captain Emmett Lochran
  • Last Waltz for Dixie – Captain Billy Pierce and Confederate Soldiers
  • The Glory – Captain Emmett Lochran, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Reynolds and Full Company

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.

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