"Got my knapsack on my back
My rifle on my shoulder.
I'ma goin' down to Shiloh
And there I'll be a soldier."

(I'm hoping there's a full set of verses to match it. The closest fit in the DT is Rocky Mountain, but that seems a bit removed from the War.)

I'll put my knapsack on my back,
My rifle over my shoulder.
I'm a'goin'way to Shiloh,
And there I'll be a soldier.

Wish I could give you more verses instead of just these words, but here's something that might help your search: the song is listed as "The Secesh (Shiloh)".

--Cuilionn

Once I had an old banjo,
It was strung with twine,
Only tune that I could play,
Was trouble on my mind
Trouble on my mind.

It's raining, it's hailing,
I know by the sky,
If my true love don't marry me,
I think that I will die

Put my knapsack on my back,
Rifle on my shoulder,
I am bound for Mexico,
There I'll be a soldier.

Once I owned the Double D,
I'm punchin' steers today,
A twistin cyclone come along,
And blowed my ranch away.

It struck the first of April,
And as it's goin' hence,
It took the barn & chicken house,
And a mile or two of fence.

It took the wife, it took the kids,
The cows and horses too,
Never left me nothing,
But the mortgage--which is due.

And that's why I'm punchin',
On the Kansas plains today,
Payin' for the cattle,
That the cyclone blowed away.

Art

Fleming Brown,in Chicago, knew a version in the 60s. It is on the LP he did for Folk Legacy about then.

Art