JULIAN PROCTOR "PAPPY" VAN WINKLE, SR. (1874-1965)
Businessman known as "Pappy" Van Winkle, he is the namesake of the premium bourbon of the same name (Old Rip Van Winkle). Other brands his former company produced were Old Fitzgerald and Rebel Yell. (I'm quite fond of Rebel Yell even though they changed its logo.)
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CHARLES L. "CHARLIE" WARD (1838-1875)
Songwriter, Confederate soldier and musician. Well-known writer of minstrel and ,olotary songs in the 1850s and 1860s. He wrote the words and/or music to such songs as "I'm Coming to My Dixie Home," "Think of Your Head in the Morning," "The Faded Gray Jacket" and "The Kentucky Battle Song."
There has been speculation that the tune "Dixie" was actually written by Charles Ward, with words by Will S. Hays (not by Daniel Emmett)
During the Civil War, Ward was the Chief Musician of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, CSA, of the famous Kentucky Orphan Brigade.
Bourbon and Dixie. --Old Secesh
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