This sheet music is for the song “Tenting on the Old Campground.” The song was written and composed by Walter Kittredge and published by Oliver Ditson & Co. in 1864. The tune was adapted and sung by the Hutchinson Family Tribe of Asa. The Hutchinson Family was a popular singing group during the Civil War who split into two ensembles, the Tribe of Jesse and Tribe of Asa and often performed songs promoting abolition, temperance, and women’s rights.
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