"The Yankee Division March"
Song
Published1919 (second edition)
Songwriter(s)Oliver E. "Chick" Story
Producer(s)D.W. Cooper Music

The Yankee Division March is a World War I march for piano written by Oliver E. ("Chick") Story at the end of 1918, shortly after the armistice.[1][2] A manuscript was copyrighted on December 11, and a first edition, published by D. W. Cooper, was copyrighted the next day.[3] In this, issued in haste, the music occupies three pages (including the back cover), and a very simple black and white cover was designed by E. S. Fisher, featuring a stylized version of the Great Seal of the United States. Sometime in February 1919 Cooper issued a second edition, with the music on two pages and a more elaborate cover designed by V. C. Plunkett and featuring a photograph of General Clarence Ransom Edwards taken by the Bachrach Studios.[4]

Story's march was one of three written in Boston that bore nearly identical titles; though it may well have been played at the welcoming ceremonies for the Yankee Division, which was a source of great civic pride, it does not seem to have endured beyond the occasion for which it was written.

References

  1. ↑ Vogel, Frederick G. (1995). World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 280. ISBN 0-89950-952-5.
  2. ↑ Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 797. ISBN 978-0-7864-2799-4.
  3. ↑ Catalog of copyright entries. Part 3, Musical compositions. Washington, DC.: Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1918. p. 1515.
  4. ↑ Catalog of copyright entries. Part 3, Musical compositions. Washington, DC.: Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1919. p. 149.
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