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We are coming Father Abraham, or, Three hundred thousand more /

Other Title:: Three hundred thousand more.; 300,000 more.
Authors:: Irving, A. B.
Item ID:: 7120090830057
Publisher:: Chicago (117 Randolph St., Chicago) : H.M. Higgins, c1862.
Call Number:: M1640.I78 W42 1862 1
Physical Description:: 1 score ([1], 2-5, [1] p.) ; 34 cm.
Topic:: Vocal quartets with piano.; Popular music -- United States -- To 1901.; Soldiers -- United States -- Songs and music.; War songs -- United States.; Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 -- Musical settings.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music.
Note:: For mixed quartet and piano.; Caption title.; From poem first published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346.; The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant or J. [!] Cullen Bryant.; "Inscribed to our volunteers"--Title page.; "Pearson"--Colophon.; First line of text: We are coming Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.; First line of chorus: We are coming, coming, coming.
OCLC Number:: 18709
Holding Institution:: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:: By appointment only
Category:: Sheet Music