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Abrahams Daughter: March from the Civil War
by Septimus Winter (1861)
with When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Patrick Gilmore a.k.a. Louis Lambert (1863).
arranged for concert band by Stephen R Dalrymple
After a family trip to Gettysburg, Antietam, Harpers Ferry, and Ford Theater, I created a concert band arrangement to solidify the trip in my mind using a popular Civil War song from the North, Abrahams Daughter, and a song used by both North and South, Johnny Comes Marching Home.
Music was a means for soldiers to release the tensions of war. By December 1861 the Union army had 28,000 musicians in 618 bands, not counting soldiers who travelled with violins and other musical instruments. Soldiers often sang as they marched by day and at night in camp. Musical duels were not uncommon between Union and Confederate bands. This idea inspired the last section of the arranger where the 2 songs are played against each other.
Septimus Winner wrote Abrahams Daughter in 1861 for the Minstrel stage. Abrahams Daughter pictures a fresh recruit that is on his way to Washington DC to be processed and trained for future battles.
Given the unpublished verses we have, Abrahams Daughter was undoubtedly sung and embellished by Union soldiers as they travelled from battlefield to battlefield.
Winner is also known for writing Ten Little Injuns Listen to the Mockingbird and Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
Abraham Lincoln had 4 sons, Robert Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas (Tad); but no daughters. So, who is Abrahams daughter?
Oh! Should you ask me who she am, Columbia is her name, sir; She is the child of Abraham, Or Uncle Sam, the same, sir. Now if I fight, why ain't I right? And don't you think I oughter. The volunteers are a-pouring in From every loyal quarter, And I'm goin' down to Washington To fight for Abraham's daughter.
At the beginning of the war, the majority of soldiers, North and South, were fighting to uphold their view of government, each side justifying its position by quoting the Constitution. Southern States saw each State as a sovereign, independent nation. Abraham Lincoln insisted that the United States were one nation. For Abraham Lincoln, the purpose of the war was to preserve the Union. The undivided union was Lincolns daughter.
arrangement © 2000, 2013 Stephen R Dalrymple
recording 2021 Stephen R Dalrymple
presentation © 2021 Stephen R Dalrymple
sequenced by the arranger
Purchase price includes permission to make photocopies of parts and additional scores for a medium size school band.
This .pdf file includes 1) Condensed Conductors Score 2) Individual parts for: Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Bassoon, Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, F Horn, Trombone, Treble Clef Baritone, Tuba, Electric Bass, Snare and Bass Drums, Cymbals, and Bells. 3) Condensed Conductors Score in a smaller format for use in a 10 inch tablet 4) The same parts formatted for a 10 inch tablet.
The YouTube video contains a full recording.
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