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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Winslow Homer

Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere:

Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home!

There’s no place like Home!
There’s no place like Home.

• As described by Union General Nelson Miles, this scene of resting in camp while the

military band played patriotic and popular songs was a common one, even when both

armies were camped near each other: “Late in the afternoon our bands were accustomed to play
the most spirited martial and national airs, as ‘Columbia,’ ‘America,’ ‘E. Pluribus Unum,’ ‘The Star-

spangled Banner,’ etc., to be answered along the Confederate lines by bands playing, with equal

enthusiasm, ‘The Bonny Blue Flag,’ ‘Southern Rights,’ and ‘Dixie.’ These demonstrations frequently
aroused the hostile sentiments of the two armies, yet the animosity disappeared when at the close

some band would strike up that melody which comes nearest the hearts of all true men, ‘Home, Sweet

Home,’ and every band within hearing would join in that sacred anthem with unbroken accord and

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enthusiasm.”
• The location of the setting (and the above quote) was the Rappahannock River near
Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Confederate army can be seen in the distance on the opposite

shore.
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