“Hold the Fort”
Description
"Ho, my comrades, see the signal, Waving in the sky; Reinforcements now appearing, Victory is nigh. 'Hold the Fort, for I am coming,' Jesus signals still...." The "great Commander" will defeat Satan's "mighty host."
Notes
Inspired by, though hardly based on, a Civil War event. After Atlanta had fallen to the Union, Sherman set up a supply dump at Allatoona. A Confederate force under General French attacked this base on October 5, 1864, and called upon Union General Corse to surrender. Soon after, General Sherman send a simple message to Corse: "Hold the fort; I am coming." Corse held out, and Sherman's troops arrived in time to drive off French. - RBW
Same tune
- Hold the Fort (Union Version) (File: PSAFB020)
- Storm the Fort, Ye Knights (Darling-NAS, pp. 371-372)
- Columbia's Daughters (by Harriet H. Robinson; Darling-NAS, p. 358)
Cross references
Recordings
- Chautauqua Preachers' Quartette, "Hold The Fort" (Columbia A1585, 1914)
References
- Silber-CivWar, pp. 82-83, "Hold the Fort" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Silber-FSWB, p. 363, "Hold the Fort" (1 text)
- DT, HOLDFRT2*
- BI, SCW82