Civil War Songs by Jennie Avila “Warrior Spirit and The Keeper of The Bones” was inspired by Jennie’s first visit to the annual Antietam Battle Field Fourth of July celebration. Accompanied by her fiancé, Steve Wright, they, and thousands like them, carried their picnic dinners through the scenic fields that had once been the grounds of a nightmarish bloodbath. After the event, 35,000 people hiked out of the battlefield in the dark. Car headlights sifted eerily through firework and cannon smoke. Occasionally a re-enactor wandered by, dressed in Confederate or Union uniform. The thousands of celebrants carrying picnic gear reminded Jennie of the soldiers who had marched down that road in the 1860’s, and she said so, out loud. A Confederate private appeared to her left, in the mist, walking next to a family dressed in shorts and t-shirts. Jennie turned away to tell Steve about the Confederate apparition. Steve replied, “There is a Union soldier...