The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-10
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4 Plan for Monument at Hartford to the
 Author of That Famous Song,


 Plan for Monument at Hartford to the Author of That Famous Song,
 Some friends Of General sherman. meeting at New York dinner party. ehaneed to be speaking Of popular war songs. and particularly of the famous song Marching Through Georgia song that did more to nspirit the boys at the front" than any other, It has been rolled out in mighty chorus from thousands of thoats to great and inspiring effect. 'I wonder" said one of the party "who wrote that song?"
 A lady answered. T know who wrote 1t. IL was written by printer in Nrt- ford-Henry c. Work. He died in Hartford In 1884. He made the words as we'll as the music of that famous song"
 This led to many expressions Of inter est by those at the table who had never before heard of the origin of song which has long perhaps been the most popular with soldiers reunions and mil itary bands of any or all others In fact. Marching Through Georgia" has become about as much a national air as "The Star-SpanRlcd Banner" The Hartford Times says;
 | No wonder the suggestion was made that there ought to be movement 10 ka Co nH ting monument to Mir. Work-and that Hartford should be the place for it. and should lead off in the initiatory steps to attain 1t.
 Tho lady who gave the information to the New York dinner party. added that Mir. Works mother was still liv- Ing in Hartford: also that Mir. Work. who died at the age of ilfty-one left n | widow and four children. She also said he was the author of various other more or less famous songs and of the music-such as the temperance song, Father, Dear Father, Come Home." and of others we'll known-"Wakc Mic | odemus," "Grandfather's Clock" Kingdom Comin'," "Touch the Sleep ing Strings" "Babylons Fallen" They've Grated Him Into the Army" and "The Ship That Never Returned" | In fact Mir. Work was the lyric poet of the war, in at least more popular | sense Out perhaps without so high a degree of literary meriD than our liar ry Brownell, of whom Dr. Holmes said | thirty years ago, that he was the war lyrist par excellence.
 It was Marching Through Georgia" that best reused the enthusiasm of the Boys in Blue, and at Hartford's Fourth of July celebration his year, nothing played by the marching bands so stirred and pleased the people as that. Few, however, would have been able, had they been asked the question. to say who made that popular song. Some of those who started the idea at the New York dinner are desirous of seeing the memorial erection actually carried into effect. They are doubtless right in saying that Hartford should move first; and it has now been sug- gested that the little triangular green at the union of Washington and La Fayette streets, owned by the city, would be the right place for it. The l lauy WHO LOOK the InOSl dCtlVe interest in the movement wished the object to be attained by popular subscription even small ones being, ,acceptable-and suggested that a subscription opened in the G. A. R. posts, far and near, for a monument to the author of March ing Through Georgia" would yield enough, together with local subscrip- tions here in Hartford to pay for a handsome memorial. It was even sug gested in general way, what the char acter of the proposed memorial might be- .i.. nr This was & granite pedestal, with | bas-reliefs in bronze, of war scenes such as Works songs suggest; and | rising from it a temple, with cupola and bust in memory of the author of the famous songs.
 The Times has been requested. and willingly complies with the request. to receive such subscriptions as may be offered here for the worthy object we have described.
 That object appeals to local as we'll as military pride.