The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a song made by Julia Ward Howe by using the song “John Brown’s Body.” However Julia was also an advocate to abolitionism for women’s rights and their suffrage. The song was made for a patriotic American Civil War. Mostly none of the people’s songs written for the American Civil War were as strongly identified as her song. This song is still sung in churches and other schools because around for so long. Mrs.Howe got inspiration from the song that it led her to create her own piece of music to the familiar tune. When she first appeared on the front page, it was in February of 1868. After the War, she was really into the rights for women She described one of her mornings and said “Awoke….in the gray of the early dawn, and to my astonishment found that the wished-for lines were arranging themselves in my …show more content…
I lay quite still until the last verse had completed itself in my thoughts, then hastily arose, saying to myself, ‘I shall lose this if I don’t write it down immediately.” (Civil War Music: The Battle Hymn of The Republic.) She had paid $5 for her first lyric appearance which was on the front page of the “Atlantic Monthly.” and their suffrage. Although she didn’t quit her writing, but none of her other pieces were as good as The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She had died on October 17, 1910, at age 91. She was born in New York City on May 27, 1819. Her mother had passed away when Julia was young. She had attended a girls’ school in her teens but was taught at home by