. The Civil War . aries over the way had attempted toappropriate it. I insisted yesterday we had fairly captured presented the question to the Attorney General and he gaveit as his opinion, that it is our lawful prize. I ask the band togive us a good turn with it. In our record wed have someone speak these words. Thenthe listener would hear the bandleaders whistle, and a secondlater, Dixie. We admit that we would have a record full of the musicalequivalent of ham. But well bet that listeners feet would tapoftener than they do to the Confederate tunes. Our recordingmight also convince a fe
. The Civil War . aries over the way had attempted toappropriate it. I insisted yesterday we had fairly captured presented the question to the Attorney General and he gaveit as his opinion, that it is our lawful prize. I ask the band togive us a good turn with it. In our record wed have someone speak these words. Thenthe listener would hear the bandleaders whistle, and a secondlater, Dixie. We admit that we would have a record full of the musicalequivalent of ham. But well bet that listeners feet would tapoftener than they do to the Confederate tunes. Our recordingmight also convince a few of the romantics who have goneoverboard for the Lost Cause that the Union soldierfought with no less spirit than his opponent, and that thepeople of the North believed in the justice of their cause asfervently as the people of the South. Properly, our story should end here, but were going toindulge in two postscripts. The first concerns Root & Cady. The firm began business as a conventional music store. [44]. SONG AND CHOfiUS; •X= r;. U--i~ ^ :FlKUSHEB BY ftOttT k CAItK, t«e. »r. VUIRK STUEET. \- The last of the great songs of the UnionFrom the Societys sheet music collection Its first advertisement, which appeared on January 15,1859,offered an extensive stock of sheet music and musical instru-ments for sale at 95 Clark Street, opposite the court the end of the year, however, Root & Cady branchedout into music publishing. War, following soon, put the firmat the head of the nations music publishers. Works King-dom Coming sold 20,000 copies in six months; sales ofThe Battle Cry of Freedom ran to six figures before theend of the war. In 1863 Root & Cady sold 258,000 pieces of [45] sheet music which if stretched out sheet by sheet wouldbridge the entire State of lUinois from Chicago to the Mis-sissippi River, and 100,000 music books. In 1864 the firmspresses consumed nearly a ton of paper a month. Although the war would soon end, the year 1865
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