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The photographic history of the Civil War in ten volumes.

Presidents: harmonies and discords of the first hundred years. When Johnny comes marching home.Įdited by Ann Owen and illustrated by Todd Ouren. Terrible war: the Civil War and its aftermath. American popular songs from the Revolutionary

The Civil War, a Film by Ken Burns External (PBS).

Gilmore Collection External (University of Maryland Libraries)

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, 1829-1892: Father of the American Concert Band External (Boston College University Libraries).

Civil War Maps (Collection Connections).

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (Collection).

Selected Civil War Photographs (Collection).

Band Music from the Civil War Era (Collection).

The Spanish American War in 1898, 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' Parody 'For Bales.' Union soldiers sang about Generals such as Burnside, McClellanĪnd Mead in a parody titled 'Boys of the Potomac'and northerners disgruntledīy taxes, conscription and inflation sang 'Johnny, Fill up the Bowl.' During The song also gave rise to many a parody. Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940 Johnny comes marching home again,' 'On the field of battle, mother.' Other songs that were sung in school entertainments were 'When She earned the pet name of 'Dixie'īy this song. Learned all the popular songs of the day and was ready to sing on any occasion. My niece Mary Hill, or Mollie,Īs we called her, but two years younger than I, was a little songbird. Years later, in 1939, one child of the Civil War era remembered: The songs we sang were all patriotic. Gilmore's 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' became popular with northerners and southerners alike. In 1872 he presented an even larger World Peace Jubilee with 2,000 instrumentalistsĪnd 20,000 vocalists, including the composer Johann Strauss and his orchestra.ĭuring this extravaganza Gilmore made use of an electrically controlled cannonĪnd one hundred Boston firemen to pound out Verdi's Anvil Chorus on real anvils! Peace Jubilee in 1869 that featured over 1,000 instrumentalists and 10,000 singers. Perhaps sick of war's tragedy Gilmore organized a National The war Gilmore's flair for amassing large groups of musicians in spectacular With 500 musicians and 5,000 or more school children, many from Confederateįamilies, and staged a monumental concert in that city's Lafayette Square. Navy of the Union.' Gilmore published the song under the pseudonym Louis Lambert,Īlthough the title page also read 'as introduced by Gilmore's Band.'ĭuring his tenure in New Orleans Gilmore showed himself to be not only a skilled

Tolman and Company of Boston in 1863 and bore the dedication 'To the Army and Sheet music for 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' was first published by Henry His part, Gilmore claimed that he had adapted an African-American spiritual.

Marching Home' and that Gilmore unconsciously might have borrowed from it. It is possible that this air was written before Gilmore's 'When Johnny Comes Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah. Where are your legs that used to run when first you went for to carry a gun?Īlas, your dancing days are done, och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye. Where are your legs that used to run, huroo, huroo, Song in the vein of 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' The Irish song concernsĬonscription into the British Army Where are your legs that used to run, huroo, huroo, Of the Irish song 'Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye,' which might be considered a protest 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' bears a remarkable similarity to the melody Time that he claimed to have composed the words and music to 'When Johnny Comes The Union Army, ordered to reorganize the state military bands. Was posted to occupied New Orleans, Louisiana in 1863 and, as Grand Master of Gilmore's band served both as musicians and stretcher bearers at such horrificīattles as Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Richmond. At the beginning of the Civil War, in September 1861, the band enlistedĪs a group in the Union Army and was attached to the 24th Massachusetts Infantry. Gilmore led a number of bands in the Boston area, including Patrick Gilmore'sīand. Gilmore, an 1848 Irish immigrant to Boston, was considered by no less a musician than John Philip Sousa as the 'Father of the American Band.' The story of 'When Johnny comes Marching Home' is also the story of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore.

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