Word: interdiction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang it in Ford's Theatre in Washington. Give Us Back Our Old Commander was used as a campaign song when McClellan ran for President against Lincoln in 1864, used again, with the name changed, when Grant was considering a third term...