We are coming Father Abraham, 300,000 more

Contributor:

Getze, J. A. (arranger of music)

Name:

Emerson, L. O. 1820-1915; Morris, Robert, 1810-1892

Timespan:

Civil War, 1861-1865

Date:

1862

Language:

English

Publisher:

Lee & Walker

Subject:

Morris, Robert, 1810-1892 Musical settings; Morris, Robert, 1810-1892; Songs with piano; Musical settings; History

Resource Type:

StillImage

Form/Genre:

Songs with piano; Songs and music; Songs; Scores

Physical Description:

1 score (5 pages); 34 cm

Geographic Subject:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music; United States

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.; From poem first published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons (Robert Morris). Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346.; The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [!] Cullen Bryant.; Music by L. O. Emerson.; First line of text: We are coming, Father Abra'am, three hundred thousand more.; First line of chorus: We are coming, we are coming. Our Union to restore.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 15, no. 84

Collection:

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)