...New York Evening Post and became immensely popular for its patriotic message and its rhythmic lines: We are coming. Father Abraham, three hundred thousand...stream and from New England's shore; We leave our ploughs and workshops, our wives and children dear. With hearts too full for utterance, but with a...

...New York Evening Post and was later adapted into a song. Its first two familiar patriotic bars went, "We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand...Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore." On Independence Day in the James River, the gunboat CSS Teaser, commanded by Lt. Hunter Davidson, steamed...

...us all plenty of everything. There's no sense in fighting." CHAPTER SIX Ira Goldstein Finds a Band "We are coming father Abraham, Three hundred thousand...Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore." Song, "We Are Coming Father Abraham," LO Emerson Ira Goldstein had left Cairo, Illinois at three in...

...how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring. — Herman Melville. THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE TTTE are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand...stream and from New England's shore; We leave our ploughs and workshops, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a...