The earliest known version of "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" is found in Christy's Plantation Melodies No.2, a songbook published under the authority of Edwin Pearce Christy in Philadelphia in 1853. The song was popular during the American Civil War in both the North and the South, and several different versions existed, with titles such as "The Gallant Hood Of Teaxs" and "The Song Of The Texas Ranger". In 1955, Don George reworked the song, gave it a marching beat, and this version appeared in an album of Civil War songs. Mitch Miller came across this version, and recorded the song with an arrangement that includes snare drums. Miller was convinced of the potential of the song, and ordered a pressing of 100,000 copies of the single, with the promise that he would buy back all copies at cost if they did not sell. Finally it sold more than one million copies in the United States alone and reached no.1 there. In Australia it went also at no.1, in United Kingdom it peaked at no.2 and on the Global Year-End Chart 1955 it ranked at no.3.