Banaster, George, is given in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, as the author of “We're marching to the conflict," and dated 1880. It previously appeared in the Christian Endeavour Hymnal, 1896, with the same signature.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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WIR PFLÜGEN (named after the incipit of Schulz’s original third stanza) was published anonymously in the Hanover collection Lieder für Volksschulen (1800). But it was credited to Johann A. P. Schulz in Lindner’s Berlin songbook Jungenfreund (1812). The harmonization by John B. Dykes (PHH 147)…
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