Albert Pike
American poet
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“Dixie” text
- In Remembering the American Civil War: Daniel Decatur Emmett and Albert Pike: Dixie
Daniel Decatur Emmett wrote “Dixie” for Bryant’s Minstrels, who first performed it in New York, probably in the late fall of 1859. The song soon reverberated through the land: people clapped their hands to it; soldiers in both the North and the…
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