Music setting of "Cheer, Boys, Cheer" by Henry Russell, 1846. According to the Library of Congress brief bios, Russell spent the "most fruitful part" of his career in the U. S., playing and singing many of his own compositions.
"Cheer, Boys, Cheer" was published also in a volume of collected poetry of Charles Mackay, 1855.

In the 1850s-1860s it also was printed without attribution on song sheets by several American printers including Andrews and Harris.

The music by Russell was used in the Confederate song "Cheer, Boys, Cheer," 1861, with new lyrics arranged and printed by Hermann Schreiner in Macon and Louisville.
The air was also popular in the North, used for the "March of the New York Volunteers," and "Our Glorious Union."