Gilmore took this band on acclaimed tours of Europe. Grateful Bostonians presented Gilmore with medals and cash, but in 1873 he moved to New York City, as bandmaster of the 22nd Regiment. Coliseums were erected for the occasions, holding 60- and 120,000 persons. These featured monster orchestras of massed bands with the finest singers and instrumentalists (including the only American appearance by вЂњwaltz kingвЂќ Johann Strauss II) and cemented GilmoreвЂ™s reputation as the leading musical figure of the age. That success emboldened him to undertake two major music festivals at Boston, the National Peace Jubilee in 1869 and the WorldвЂ™s Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in 1872. When peace resumed, Gilmore was asked to organize a celebration, which took place at New Orleans. After the temporary discharge of bands from the field, Governor Andrew of Massachusetts entrusted Gilmore with the task of re-organizing military music-making, and General Nathaniel P. In 1858 he founded вЂњGilmoreвЂ™s Band,вЂќ and at the outset of war the band enlisted with the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers, accompanying General Burnside to North Carolina. With the Salem Band, Gilmore performed at the 1857 inauguration of President James Buchanan. Ordway and founed OrdwayвЂ™s Aeolians, a group of blackface minstrels. He also worked in the Boston music store of John P. Already a fine cornet player, he settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1848, becoming leader of the Suffolk, Boston Brigade, and Salem bands in swift succession. He started his music career at age fifteen, and spent time in Canada with an English band. Gilmore was born in Ballygar, County Galway. Whilst serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song вЂњWhen Johnny Comes Marching Home.вЂќ This was published under the name Louis Lambert. Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (DecemвЂ“ September 24, 1892) was an Irish-born American composer and bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848.

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