Talk:Boys the Old Flag Never Touched the Ground

Two similar songs
There are indeed cites for a song titled "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground," by Rosamond and James Weldon Johnson and Bob Cole, perhaps from 1901. See the two sources in this comment (which I relocated from the article text) "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground. Patriotic March" was actually written ABOUT Sergeant William Carnery, not by him. It was written by The Johnson Brothers in 1901 and Bob Cole (aka Robert Allen Cole Jr.).

Sources: Johns Hopkins University Library. https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/6886

Library of Congress. African American Oddesy. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart6.html as well as http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE|K1622000067&source=Bookmark&u=wash84213&jsid=5dfe8609fe906d6b5f2cb761cd10e448 However, the image in this article clearly names another song, "Boys the Old Flag Never Touched the Ground," by Mather and Lothrop, "as sung by: Wm. H. Carney." Dating the Mather and Lothrop song is problematic. It would be hard for it to be sung by Carney after his death in 1908. Dgorsline (talk) 00:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)