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Notated Music Mother, come, your boy is dying

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Title

  • Mother, come, your boy is dying

Names

  • Wittig, Rudolph (composer)
  • Zieber, John L. (lyricist)

Created / Published

  • William R. Smith, Philadelphia, 1864.

Headings

  • -  United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music
  • -  Choruses, Secular, with piano
  • -  United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties -- Songs and music
  • -  Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864 -- Songs and music
  • -  Mothers and sons -- United States -- Songs and music
  • -  Soldiers -- United States -- Death -- Songs and music
  • -  Popular Songs of the Day
  • -  Songs and Music
  • -  War and Conflict
  • -  Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)

Notes

  • -  Music associated with the Union side

Form

  • sheet music

LC Classification

  • M1640.W

Online Format

  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Civil War Sheet Music Collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Wittig, Rudolph, and John L Zieber. Mother, Come, Your Boy Is Dying. William R. Smith, Philadelphia, 1864. Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200002326/.

APA citation style:

Wittig, R. & Zieber, J. L. (1864) Mother, Come, Your Boy Is Dying. William R. Smith, Philadelphia. [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200002326/.

MLA citation style:

Wittig, Rudolph, and John L Zieber. Mother, Come, Your Boy Is Dying. William R. Smith, Philadelphia, 1864. Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200002326/>.