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Immortal Songs of Camp and Field

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IMMORTAL SONGS OF CAMP AND FIELD

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL (From the celebrated painting by Trumbull)

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL (From the celebrated painting by Trumbull)
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL (From the celebrated painting by Trumbull)
Immortal Songs Of Camp and Field The Story of their Inspiration together with Striking Anecdotes connected with their History. By Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D.D. Author of Immortal Hymns and Their Story, "Christ and His Friends" "The Christian Gentleman," Etc. Etc. With Portraits and Illustrations CLEVELAND: The Burrows Brothers Company, Publishers Mdcccxcix
Immortal Songs Of Camp and Field The Story of their Inspiration together with Striking Anecdotes connected with their History. By Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D.D. Author of Immortal Hymns and Their Story, "Christ and His Friends" "The Christian Gentleman," Etc. Etc. With Portraits and Illustrations CLEVELAND: The Burrows Brothers Company, Publishers Mdcccxcix

Copyright, 1898 by The Burrows Brothers Co. ——— ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Imperial Press CLEVELAND

To my sister Lacibel Ainsworth Wood this volume is lovingly and gratefully dedicated by the author

CONTENTS
CONTENTS

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The American Flag 17

Joseph Rodman Drake

Adams and Liberty27

Robert Treat Paine

Yankee Doodle41

Unknown

The Star-Spangled Banner53

Francis Scott Key

Hail Columbia67

Joseph Hopkinson

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean77

Thomas à Becket

The Flag of our Union87

George P. Morris

John Brown’s Body97

Charles S. Hall

Dixie109

Dan Emmett

The Battle Cry of Freedom125

George F. Root

Song of a Thousand Years137

Henry Clay Work

Tenting on the Old Camp Ground149

Walter Kittredge

The Battle Hymn of the Republic159

Julia Ward Howe

Just Before the Battle, Mother171

George F. Root

When this Cruel War is Over181

Charles Carroll Sawyer

Marching through Georgia193

Henry Clay Work

My Maryland205

James Ryder Randall

All Quiet Along the Potomac217

Ethel Lynn Beers

The Old Folks at Home227

Stephen Collins Foster

The Blue and the Gray237

Francis Miles Finch

Rule, Britannia249

James Thomson

The Watch on the Rhine259

Max Schneckenburger

The Marseillaise269

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

The Blue Bells of Scotland279

Annie McVicar Grant

Recessional291

Rudyard Kipling

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Portraits
Portraits

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Thomas à Becket 76

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen 258

John Brown96

Joseph Rodman Drake16

Daniel Decatur Emmett108

Francis Miles Finch236

Stephen Collins Foster226

Ulysses Simpson Grant216

Joseph Hopkinson66

Julia Ward Howe158

John Wallace Hutchinson148

Francis Scott Key52

Rudyard Kipling290

La Fayette268

Robert Edward Lee204

Abraham Lincoln124

George Pope Morris86

Robert Treat Paine26

Albert Pike118

George Frederick Root170

Charles Carroll Sawyer180

William Tecumseh Sherman192

Charles Edward Stuart, the Pretender278

James Thomson248

George Washington40

Henry Clay Work136

Bunker Hill Monument

Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill Monument
Illustrations
Illustrations

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Battle of Bunker HillFrontispiece

Bunker Hill Monumentxii

Washington Monumentxiv

Mount Hood22

Statue of the Minuteman at Concord, Massachusetts32

Liberty Bell37

Boston Common46

Fort McHenry58

The Capitol72

Statue of Liberty80

West Point Military Academy90

Harper’s Ferry102

Picking Cotton112

Fort Sumter130

The White House142

Moccasin Bend152

Faneuil Hall164

Fortress Monroe176

U. S. Battle-Ship “Maine”186

Sherman burns Atlanta and marches toward the sea198

Plymouth Rock202

The Invasion of Maryland210

Mount Vernon222

“Still longin’ for de old plantation, And for de old folks at home”232

Grant’s Monument242

The Tower of London254

National Monument, Niederwald264

Vieux Port, Marseilles274

Stirling Castle284

Houses of Parliament296

Washington Monument

Washington Monument
Washington Monument

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE
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