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Root, who had come to the city the previous year, and had entered the music publishing business with his brother, E. T. Root. * Deeply interested in church music and popular song, he bent all his energies in this direction. His whole sympathies were aroused by the President's procla- mation, and he felt that there was a pressing need for a rallying song, one which would quicken the patriotism of the hour. The result of his endeavor was the "Battle Cry of Freedom." This song was first given to t...he public by the well-known Lumbard brothers, Jules and Frank, in the Chi- cago Court House Square. Over the heads of the crowd rang the voices of the brothers: "The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah ! " The crowd soon caught the refrain, and like a mighty ocean wave whose power no man can arrest, the music welled upward and onward until the whole of the North caught the inspiration, and the " boys " respond- ing, and " springing to the call," carried their rallying song to camp and field, many of them yielding their lives while still " Shouting the battle cry of Freedom." George F.
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