John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah ...

She penned "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in November 1861 ... The lyrics are often altered in modern performances to "let us live to make men free." Yet some 360,000 federal soldiers ...

It is the swelling sound of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a timeless song that ... who adapted her version from the popular Civil War-era marching song “John Brown’s Body” in ...

The ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ has marched its way through ... But the "Battle Hymn" was burned into my consciousness by the version we sang with the Youth Orchestra of Philadelphia in ...

This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In the early part of the Civil War President Lincoln was very much discouraged at the ...

Yes, that very American tune—“The Battle Hymn of the Republic”—set to seasonal ... The fifth stanza—the final one of the version poet Julia Ward Howe published in the Atlantic Monthly ...