Miss Bundy learned this song from her mother, Mrs. Olive Morgan Bundy, who was born in Canada but came to the States at the age of 14 with her father, who enlisted in the Army of the North. Olive Morgan possessed a beautiful singing voice and picked up all the songs of the day and was much in demand at every gathering.
Years after the war, she often sang at the GAR encampments, where the old soldiers would call out names of their favorite ballads. "We were always sure that they would call for this one."