The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Julia Ward Howe. From her last photograph, taken at Smith College a fortnight before her death
BY FLORENCE HOWE HALL DAUGHTER OF JULIA WARD HOWE
HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic Copyright, 1916, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published October, 1916
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).
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.