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48 30. A copy of the original sheet music edition of Bliss's "Hold the Fort!" (Sheet Music Copyright No. 4736, 10 December 1870), as reproduced here, is in the Music Division, Library of Congress, as is an 1898 edition copyrighted 1898 (No. 41751–2) by Bliss's sons and heirs, P. P. and G. G. Bliss. The latter is in "Our National War Songs" series published by The John Church Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. The title of the song was printed with an exclamation mark on the cover sheet of the original sheet music, but was printed generally thereafter without the mark, as, indeed, was the case on the very first page of the original itself. Accordingly, unless called for by a quotation or some other reason, the title "Hold the Fort" appears in these pages without the exclamation mark.

31. For an excellent history of Root & Cady which (with one exception) lists all the registered sheet music the firm published for Bliss, see Dena J. Epstein, "Music Publishing in Chicago Prior to 1871: The Firm of Root & Cady, 1858–1871" (M.A. thesis in library science, University of Illinois, 1943), published serially under the general title of "Music Publishing in Chicago before 1871," Music Library Association Notes (series 2), vol. 1 (June 1944), pp. 3–11, September 1944, pp. 43–59; vol. 2 (December 1944), pp. 16–26, March 1945, pp. 124–148, June 1945, pp. 201–226, September 1945, pp. 310–314, 317–324; and vol. 3 (December 1945), pp. 80–98, 101–109. Also, see George F. Root, The Story of a Musical Life (1891). Root was the author of the well-known Civil War songs "Just before the Battle Mother" and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp."

32. These words, with their capitalization and punctuation, are quoted from the original sheet music edition cited in note 30, above.

33. See Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, p. 114; Sankey, My Life; Nicholas Smith, Hymns Historically Famous (1901), pp. 260–262; Elias Nason, The American Evangelists, Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, with an Account of Their Work in England and America; and a Sketch of the Lives of P. P. Bliss and Dr. Eben Tourjée (1877), pp. 269–273; Richard Ellsworth Day, Bush Aglow: The Life Story of Dwight Lyman Moody, Commoner of Northfield (1936), pp. 133–134; and Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth, The Story of Hymns and Tunes (1907), pp. 431–432.

34. Memoirs of Philip P Bliss and Detty's Centennial Sketch are the principal sources for biographical information on Bliss. Among other sources, several of which are cited above, George C. Stebbins, Reminiscences and Gospel Hymn Stories (1924) is especially good. A brief biographical sketch, not otherwise mentioned in these pages, appears in the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 8, pp. 443–444. See also Root, Story of a Musical Life, pp. 138–139, 162; and Ernest K. Emurian, Living Stories of Famous Hymns (1955), pp. 66–68, 80–82. Willard A. Heaps and Porter W. Heaps, in The Singing Sixties: The Spirit of Civil War Days Drawn from the Music of the Times (1960), p. 347, quote lines from the Civil War song "Good-bye, Jeff" [Jeff, of course, being Jefferson Davis], for which Bliss wrote the words and music.

35. The first verse and chorus as found in Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, pp. 30–31. Charles Harris arranged this song for the guitar.

36. Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, p. 51.

37. Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, p. 41.