Cover of SAY BROTHERS WILL YOU MEET US in 1861 - Bostonite with strong abolitionist views and the first to publish the John Brown Song as a (bestselling) broadsheet during the first weeks of the Civil War; later version as Fort Warren (referring to the fort near Boston where the 18th Regiment was stationed at the time); many publishers followed, locally and nationally; by the end of the war some 75 different sheet music versions were counted
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