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First Band Music in Celebration of Secession

Trivia-

The very first band music played to celebrate South Carolina's Ordnanace of Secession, on the night of December 20th, 1860, played for the large crowd in front of the Mills House Hotel was the French National Anthem "Marseillaise" and followed, for the first time in public, by the "Secession March" of Prof. Caulfield.

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David Upton