North and South had songs of pride, sorrow.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)

Byline: Peter Cliffe, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Fort Sumter had just fallen when J. Harry Hayward and Thomas D. Sullivan came out with "The Flag of Fort Sumter," while Anna Bache and C. Munzinger gave a Northern public, alarmed at the way things were going, "The Hero of Fort Sumter," honoring Robert Anderson, commander of the doomed fort.

Neither song sold well; nor did the sheet music of George Frederick Root's "The First Gun is Fired! May God Protect the Right." It wasn't a very good song, which is probably why it made so little impression, but Root would soon become one of the most famous of the Union's songwriters.

Concern was expressed in "May God Save the Union," by the Rev. G. Douglass Brewerton, with music by Carl Wolfsohn, which resembled a hymn: "May God save the Union! The Red, White and Blue, / Our states keep united the dreary day through."

Southern …