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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party

Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1809-

Unknown 18, 19, 20
 Air: Yankee Doodle.

A Song of the Flag

M. Woolsey Stryher

Unknown 20
 Air: Yankee Doodle.

Ode for Washington’s Birthday

Written for the celebration of the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 22, 1856.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1809-

Ludwig van Beethoven 21
 1770-1827.

From the choral setting of Schiller’s Hymn of Joy at the close of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

The Sword of Bunker Hill

William Ross Wallace
  1819-1881.

Bernard Covert 22, 23

Song of the Negro Boatman

From the poem At Port Royal.

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

Wenzel Müller 24, 25   1767-1835.

Hymn sung at St. Helena’s Island, S. C.

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

Albert Gottlieb Methfessel 26   1785-1869.

Where the Eagle is King

Thomas Buchanan Read
  1822-1872.

William F. Hartley 27, 28, 29

Now

Philip Paul Bliss
  1838-1876.

Philip Paul Bliss 30, 31

Laus Deo!

Written on hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

Jonathan Battishill 32
  1738-1801.

Swanee River

This song, Old Folks at Home, one of the best known ever written, is one of Foster’s famous Plantation Melodies.

Stephen Collins Foster
  1826-1864.

Stephen Collins Foster 33

Ready

Phoebe Cary
  1824-1871.

Unknown 34, 35

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Written in Washington during the Civil War, where the author had listened for hours to the tramp of marching troops going to the front.

Julia Ward Howe
  1819-

Unknown 36, 37
Air: John Brown's Body.

The melody was first known to be used in a negro Presbyterian church in Charleston, S. C, in 1859. Soon after it was used in the North with the words, "Say, brothers, will you meet us?" During the Civil War this song became very popular with the soldiers and the people.

The Sweet Little Man

Dedicated to the Stay-at-Home Rangers.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1809-

Scotch Air 38, 39  Air: Bonnie Dundee.

Our Country

From the poem read at a celebration on July 4, 1883.

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 40, 41
 1809-1847.

Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground

Written while the author was preparing to go to the front as a soldier.

Walter Kittredge
  1832-

Walter Kittredge 42, 43

Decoration Day

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1807-1882.

Johann Aegidius Geyer 43

The Flag

James Riley

L. V. H. Crosby 44

Air: Dearest Mae. Also, It was my Last Cigar.

Centennial Hymn

Written for the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia, 1876.

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

John Knowles Paine 45
 1839-