We are coming Father Abraam: three hundred thousand more

set to music by P.S. Gilmore. For voice and piano, with chorus refrain. 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.

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Original record: We are coming Father Abraam: three hundred thousand more
Collection: Lincoln Sheet Music
Date(s): 1810 – 1892
1862
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 (lyricist)
Gilmore, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1829-1892 (creator)
Russell & Patee (publisher)
Subject(s): Civil War, 1861-1865
Cullen Bryant
Evening Post
History
James Sloan Gibbons
Morris, Robert
Musical settings
Popular music
Sheet Music
Songs and music
To 1901
United States
War songs
Type: notated music

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