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George Frederick Root ( 1820 – 1895 ) was a popular American songwriter during the American Civil War . He was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts and was for some time a music teacher in Boston and New York . He then took to song, and during the Civil War leaped into fame as the composer of ''Tramp, tramp, tramp the Boys are Marching'', ''Just before the Battle, Mother'', '' The Battle Cry Of Freedom '', and other songs. He was made a Musical Doctor by the first University Of Chicago in 1872. He died at his summer home in Bailey Island , Maine at 75 years old. |
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