Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian (VIDEO)

University of Cincinnati

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Of all the music studied to date, UC's Tom Kernan said the composition that best encapsulates the enduring Lincoln legacy is a funeral poem set to music right after Lincoln’s 1865 assassination. It’s titled "Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian."

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Civil War cover sheet image for "Farewell, Father, Friend and Guardian" courtesy Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Recording by Anne and Ridley Enslow from "Music for Abraham Lincoln: Campaign Songs, Civil War Tunes, and Laments" (Enslow Publishers).

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