Dec 21, 2009

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | We Are Coming, Father Abraham, Three Hundred Thousand More

We Are Coming, Father Abraham, Three Hundred Thousand More,
poem by James Sloan Gibbons (1810–92), a Quaker Abolitionist. Prompted by Lincoln's call for 300,000 new troops in 1862, the poem appeared in the New York Evening Post (July 1862). Set to music by Luther O. Emerson, Stephen Foster, and others, it became a favorite song of Union partisans.