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Ashokan Farewell is the name of the title theme song composed for the television miniseries The Civil War which aired on PBS in 1990. Composed by Jay Ungar in 1982 in the style of a Scottish lament or Irish Air, the song is the only contemporary song used for the soundtrack. People frequently and erroneously believe it was written and performed during the Civil War;

All other music in the show was authentic 19th century music. The song is named for the Ashokan Field Campus of the State University of New York at New Paltz, where Ungar held a series of summer music camps.

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Ashokan FarewellAshokan Farewell is the name of the title theme song composed for the television miniseries The Civil War which aired on PBS in 1990. Composed by Jay Ungar in 1982 in the style of a Scottish lament or Irish Air, the song is the only contemporary song used

AshokanandaSwami Ashokananda was born in the village of Bekitaka in the year 1893. His premonastic name was Yogeshchandra Datta. He spent his childhood days in Durgapur(now part of Bangladesh). He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1921 and took the vow of Sannyasa in

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