{"id":1845,"date":"2007-07-02T09:44:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/battle-hymn-of-the-republic\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:44:22","slug":"battle-hymn-of-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/battle-hymn-of-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Hymn of the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Words: Ju\u00c2\u00adlia W. Howe, 1861, alt.<\/p>\n

This hymn was born dur\u00c2\u00ading the Amer\u00c2\u00adi\u00c2\u00adcan ci\u00c2\u00advil war, when Howe vis\u00c2\u00adit\u00c2\u00aded a Un\u00c2\u00adion Ar\u00c2\u00admy camp on the Po\u00c2\u00adto\u00c2\u00admac Riv\u00c2\u00ader near Wash\u00c2\u00ading\u00c2\u00adton, D. C. She heard the sol\u00c2\u00addiers sing\u00c2\u00ading the song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153John Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Body,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and was tak\u00c2\u00aden with the strong march\u00c2\u00ading beat. She wrote the words the next day:<\/p>\n

I awoke in the grey of the morn\u00c2\u00ading, and as I lay wait\u00c2\u00ading for dawn, the long lines of the de\u00c2\u00adsired po\u00c2\u00adem be\u00c2\u00adgan to en\u00c2\u00adtwine them\u00c2\u00adselves in my mind, and I said to my\u00c2\u00adself, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I must get up and write these vers\u00c2\u00ades, lest I fall asleep and for\u00c2\u00adget them!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So I sprang out of bed and in the dim\u00c2\u00adness found an old stump of a pen, which I re\u00c2\u00admem\u00c2\u00adbered us\u00c2\u00ading the day be\u00c2\u00adfore. I scrawled the vers\u00c2\u00ades al\u00c2\u00admost with\u00c2\u00adout look\u00c2\u00ading at the p\u00c2\u00adaper.<\/em><\/p>\n

The hymn ap\u00c2\u00adpeared in the At\u00c2\u00adlant\u00c2\u00adic Month\u00c2\u00adly in 1862. It was sung at the fun\u00c2\u00ader\u00c2\u00adals of Brit\u00c2\u00adish states\u00c2\u00adman Win\u00c2\u00adston Church\u00c2\u00adill, Amer\u00c2\u00adi\u00c2\u00adcan sen\u00c2\u00adat\u00c2\u00ador Ro\u00c2\u00adbert Ken\u00c2\u00adne\u00c2\u00addy, and Am\u00c2\u00ader\u00c2\u00adi\u00c2\u00adcan pre\u00c2\u00adsi\u00c2\u00addents Ron\u00c2\u00adald Rea\u00c2\u00adgan and Ri\u00c2\u00adchard Nix\u00c2\u00adon.<\/p>\n

Music: John Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bo\u00c2\u00addy, poss\u00c2\u00adi\u00c2\u00adbly by John Will\u00c2\u00adiam Steffe. John Brown was an Amer\u00c2\u00adi\u00c2\u00adcan abo\u00c2\u00adli\u00c2\u00adtion\u00c2\u00adist who led a short lived in\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00adsur\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00adrect\u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00adion to free the slaves.<\/p>\n

SAMPLE MUSIC – FIRST LINE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LYRICS FOR BATTLE\u00c2 HYMN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
\nHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
\nHe hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
\nHis truth is marching on.
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.<\/p>\n

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
\nThey have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
\nI can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
\nHis day is marching on.
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.<\/p>\n

I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d;
\nLet the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
\nSince God is marching on.
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.<\/p>\n

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
\nHe is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
\nOh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
\nOur God is marching on.
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.<\/p>\n

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
\nWith a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
\nAs He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
\n[originally \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6let us die to make men free]
\nWhile God is marching on.
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.<\/p>\n

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
\nHe is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
\nSo the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
\nOur God is marching on.
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
\nGlory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION – BATTLE HYMN LYRICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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HISTORY OF BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tune was written, around 1855, by South Carolinian William Steffe. The lyrics at that time were alternately called “Canaan’s Happy Shore” or “Brothers, Will You Meet Me?” and the song was sung as a campfire spiritual. The tune spread across the United States, taking on many sets of new lyrics.<\/p>\n

A man from Vermont named Thomas Bishop joined the Massachusetts Infantry before the outbreak of war and wrote a popular set of lyrics, circa 1860, titled “John Brown’s Body” which became one of his unit’s walking songs. According to writer Irwin Silber (who has written a book about Civil War folksongs), the song was not about John Brown, the famed abolitionist, but a Scotsman of the same name who was a member of the 12th Massachusetts Regiment. An article by writer Mark Steyn explains that the men of John Brown’s unit had made up a song poking fun at him, and sang it widely.<\/p>\n

Bishop’s battalion was dispatched to Washington, D.C. early in the Civil War, and Julia Ward Howe heard this song during a public review of the troops in Washington. As with many others, she assumed it was about John Brown the abolitionist. Her companion at the review, the Reverend James Clarke, suggested to Howe that she write new words for the fighting men’s song, and the current version of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was born.<\/p>\n

Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” was first published on the front page of The Atlantic Monthly of February 1862. The sixth verse written by Howe, which is less commonly sung, was not published at that time. The song was also published as a broadside in 1863 by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Julia Ward Howe was the wife of Samuel Gridley Howe, the famed scholar in education of the blind. Samuel and Julia were also active leaders in anti-slavery politics and strong supporters of the Union. Julia was visiting a Union camp when she heard the soldiers singing “John Brown’s Body” and was inspired to write the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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