Rising of the people. "The drum-tap rattles through the land"

A patriotic scene on the cover of a music sheet for a song written by N. P. Beers and composed by M. Colburn. In a middle-class domestic interior a young soldier (center) prepares to go off to war for the Union. He is surrounded by his family and has discarded his civilian clothes, which lie in a heap at left, and donned a uniform taken from a still-open trunk. A small child--possibly his own--watches him with obvious fascination. A young woman (his wife?) clutches his hand, as an elderly man kneels beside him fixing a holster to his belt. A revolver is on the floor in the foreground. A young girl (right) holds his knapsack, and another man (at left, standing beneath a picture of a Revolutionary War scene) holds his musket and points toward an open doorway at the right, through which Union troops are visible assembled before the U.S. Capitol.
Entered . . . 1862 by Firth, Pond & Co.
Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
New York. Published by Firth, Pond & Co. 547 Broadway. Boston, O. Ditson & Co. Rochester, J.P. Shaw. Milwaukee, H.N. Hempsted. Pittsburgh, H. Kleber & Bro.
The Library's copy of the music sheet was deposited for copyright on July 2, 1862.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-5.