CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| 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] |
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE
REPUBLIC
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.