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Probably needs an article should I get interested."Here's your mule"/"Where's your mule?" was a famous Confederate catch-phrase during the Civil War, and is often noted in Civil War histories. It resulted in several Civil War songs, including "Here's Your Mule", "How Are You? John Morgan", and "Turchin's Got Your Mule"—the latter a Union porpaganda song. It is also credited with contributing to General Bragg's failure to rally his troops at Missionary Ridge.

• Benson, C.D. "Here's Your Mule. Comic Camp Song and Chorus" (Sheet music). Nashville, Tenn.: C.D. Benson (1862).

• Benson, C.D. "How Are You? John Morgan: A Sequel to Here's Your Mule." (Sheet music). Nashville, Tenn.: C.D. Benson (1864).

Supposedly, John Morgan (Morgan's Raid) escaped on a stolen mule.

• Burnett, Alf. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive. Cincinnati: Rickey & Carroll, Publishers (1863).

p. 278: "Turchin's Got Your Mule" i.e John B. Turchin

A planter came to camp one day,

His niggers for to find;

His mules had also gone astray,

And stock of every kind.

The planter tried to get them back,

And then was made a fool,

For every one he met in camp

Cried, "Mister, here's your mule."

Chorus

Go back, go back, go back, old scamp,

And don't be made a fool;

Your niggers they are all in camp,

And Turchin's got your mule.

His corn and horses all were gone

Withing a day or two.

Again he went to Colonel Long,

To see what he could do,

"I can not change what I have done,

And won't be made a fool,"

Was all the answere he could get,

The owner of the mule.

Chorus

And thus from place to place we go,

The song is e'er the same;

'Tis not as once it used to be,

For Morgan's lost his name.

He went up North, and there he stays,

With stricken face, the fool;

In Cincinnati now he cries,

My kingdom for a mule."

Chorus

• Pollard, Edward A. The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. New York: E.B. Treat & Co. (1867).

p. 457: "The day was shamefully lost. Gen. Bragg attempted to rally the broken troops; he advanced into the fire, and exclaimed, 'Here is your commander,' and was answered with the derisive shouts of an absurd catch-phrase in the army, 'Here's your mule'."