verses praise lager, but lament the fact that "mit no money", drinking it is not possible, and praise sausages and thence to speculate on the fate of the missing dog: Another of Winner's best-remembered songs, "Ten Little Injuns", was originally published in 1864. This was adapted, possibly by Frank J. Green in 1868 as "Ten Little Niggers" and became a standard of the blackface minstrel shows. It was sung by Christy's Minstrels and became widely known in Europe, where it was used by Agatha Christie in her 1939 novel And Then There Were None, about 10 killings on a remote island. In 2005, film historian Richard Finegan identified Winner as the composer of The Three Stooges song "Swingin' the Alphabet" featured in their 1938 film Violent Is the Word for Curly. Winner had originally published it in 1875 as "The Spelling Bee". In 1862, Winner was court-martialed and briefly jailed, accused of treason, because he wrote and published a song entitled "Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride". It concerned General George B. McClellan, whom President Abraham Lincoln had just fired from the command of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan was a popular man, and his supporters bought more than 80,000 copies of the song in its first two days of publication. He was released from arrest after promising to destroy all of the remaining copies. Shortly after his release, he wrote, "Oh Where, oh Where Ish Mine Little Dog Gone". The song reappeared in 1864 when McClellan was a presidential candidate. In 1880, the words were rewritten as a campaign ditty on behalf of Ulysses S. Grant. Winner's 1865 love song of the American Civil War, Sweet Ellie Rhee (or "Carry Me Back to Tennessee"), is widely considered to have been introduced to South Africa by Americans working in the Transvaal gold mines, and to have greatly influenced the well-known Afrikaans song Sarie Marais. Personal life Artist Margaret F. Winner was his youngest daughter. Songs The most popular Septimus Winner songs include: "How Sweet Are the Roses" (1850) "I Set My Heart Upon a Flower" (1854) "What Is Home Without a Mother" (1854) "Listen to the Mockingbird" (1855) "Abraham's Daughter" or "Raw Recruits" (1861) "Der Deitcher's Dog" (1864) "Ellie Rhee" or "Carry Me Back to Tennessee" (1865) "What Care I?" (1866) "Whispering Hope" (1868) "Ten Little Injuns" (1868) "The Birdies' Ball" (1869) "Come Where