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Root, George Frederick

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Root, George Frederick (1820–95), musician and music publisher, whose compositions with facile rhymes or martial or sentimental subjects were in great favor during the Civil War. The best known are The Battle Cry of Freedom, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching, and Just Before the Battle, Mother.

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