“The White Plume” (1884)

 

Sousa and Edward M. Taber collaborated on a song called “We’ll Follow Where the White Plume Waves” to support the presidential election campaign of James Gillespie Blaine, affectionately known as the “plumed knight.” Sousa rearranged the song as a military march, added new sections, and called it “The White Plume.”

Paul E. Bierley, The Works of John Philip Sousa (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984), 96. Used by permission.