It’s Memorial Day, which began as a commemoration of those who died in the American Civil War. Since we have no day set aside to take note of civilian victims of war, I think they should be included in Memorial Day as well. In any event, here’s a song about all the tragic losses of war, associated via Cold Mountain with the Civil War: Elvis Costello and T-Bone Burnett’s “Scarlet Tide,” as performed by Alison Krauss.
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York. More by Ed Kilgore
