The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

by Florence Marion Howe Hall

Julia Ward Howe.
From her last photograph, taken at Smith College a fortnight before her death.

The Story of
the Battle Hymn
of the Republic

 

By
Florence Howe Hall
Daughter of Julia Ward Howe

 

 

Harper & Brothers
New York and London

The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Copyright, 1916, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published October, 1916

Acknowledgment

The author wishes to express her cordial thanks to Messrs. Houghton & Mifflin for their courtesy in allowing her to quote a number of passages from the Reminiscences of Julia Ward Howe (published by them in 1899) and several from Julia Ward Howe (published by them in 1916).

Contents

Chap.		Page
	The Battle Hymn of the Republic	1
I.	The Anti-slavery Prelude to the Great Tragedy of the Civil War	3
II.	The Crime against Kansas	21
III.	Mrs. Howe Visits the Army of the Potomac	38
IV.	"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"	49
V.	The Army Takes It Up	64
VI.	Notable Occasions Where It Has Been Sung	73
VII.	How and Where the Author Recited It	88
VIII.	Tributes to "The Battle Hymn"	96
IX.	Mrs. Howe's Lesser Poems of the Civil War	107
X.	Mrs. Howe's Love of Freedom an Inheritance	121