[1864]
Lyrics by Marie Ravenel de LaCoste
Music by John Hill Hewitt.

Somebody’s Darling, was originally a poem written by Marie Ravenel de LaCoste, a nurse (and a poet) of Savannah, Georgia. The poem first appeared in print in 1864. Miss de LaCoste took her poem to Hermann L Schreiner of J. C. Schreiner & Son music firm of Savannah requesting that it be turned into a song. Schreiner forwarded the piece and the request to John Hill Hewitt.

The southern sheet music edition was published in 1864 by J. C. Schreiner & Son of Macon and Savannah, Georgia, and Schreiner & Hewitt of Augusta, Georgia. It was also popular in the North. The number of northerners who provided music for this song included Mrs E K Crawford, Leon C Weld, A J Abbott, William Cumming and C. Everest.

The moving scene: Women around a dying young soldier (no matter if he's a Federal or Confederate). They... (continuer)