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  2. Kingdom Coming - Wikipedia

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    "Kingdom Coming" was one of the most successful Union songs, renowned as a favorite among Black Unionists and minstrel troupes. It amassed sheet music sales of 75,000 copies. The publisher George Frederick Root claimed that it was his firm's most successful piece "for nearly a year and a half" and "the most successful patriotic song in the West."

  3. For Your Country and My Country - Wikipedia

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    The song was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Co. of New York, New York. Artist Albert Wilfred Barbelle designed the sheet music cover. It features Uncle Sam playing a snare drum with an eagle on his shoulder. In the background are ships sailing, and below are troops marching. Above the title, it reads, "The Official Recruiting Song."

  4. America the Beautiful - Wikipedia

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    "America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, [1] though the two never met. [2] Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".

  5. 50 Songs About America to Add to Your Independence Day ... - AOL

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    This perfect patriotic song about America from Hamilton introduces not just Alexander Hamilton, but also often-unsung revolutionary heroes Hercules Mulligan, John Laurens and Marquis de Lafayette ...

  6. Battle Hymn of the Republic - Wikipedia

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    The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is an American patriotic song written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War. Howe adapted her song from the soldiers' song " John Brown's Body " in November 1861, and sold it for $4 to The Atlantic Monthly [ 1 ] in February 1862.

  7. S. Brainard Sons - Wikipedia

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    The business published music and songbooks including political and patriotic music. [2] Brainard also published the periodical Western Musical World which was eventually renamed Brainard's Musical World. [3] [4] The Library of Congress has a collection of their sheet music. [5] The New York Public Library has copies of their periodical in its ...

  8. Chester (song) - Wikipedia

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    Chester" is a patriotic anthem composed by William Billings and sung during the American Revolutionary War. Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant (1778). It is the latter version that is best known today.

  9. Song of Liberty - Wikipedia

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    "Song of Liberty" is a British patriotic song which became popular during the Second World War. [1] The song was set to the music of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4. It followed the success of Land of Hope and Glory, another patriotic song with lyrics by A. C. Benson set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1.