"Battle Hymn of the Republic", performed by Gretchen Teachout at the Spring Follies, April 1990
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"Battle Hymn of the Republic", performed by Gretchen Teachout at the Spring Follies, April 1990
"Battle Hymn of the Republic", performed by Roger Miller and the Grand Finale with the entire cast, at the Spring Follies, June 1985
Eyes which saw us here
As we now are
And knew
And saw no glory
No Lord
Best of battle hymn of the republic download & video performance is a fascinating music and i love the hymn due to the fact that is also known as Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory composed by William Steffe and the interesting text was written by Julia Ward Howe.
You can download the battle hymn of the republic sheet music and watch the beautiful video performance here: kongashare.com/battle-hymn-of-the-republic-sheet-music-wi...
A part of the Vietnam War/Korean War memorial at Spingdale Cemetery on the bluffs of Clinton,IA. Spingdale has separate memorial areas to the Civil War,World Wars,as well as the Vietnam War.These brave soldiers truly did give their lives so we could live ours in freedom!
This lyric from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has changed over the years.It is usually sang as "...let us LIVE to make men free..." Julia Ward Howe original lyric is a little darker perhaps,but unfortunately more realistic about the horrors of war.
Have a great Memorial Day all!
You've seen her before, and you'll see her again every Independence Day for as long as I'm around. I captured this lovely lady as she rode in the Red Bluff, CA rodeo to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and lemme tell ya, that was as moving an event as I've ever experienced.
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Statue of an eagle at the entrance of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Description: Letter from Julia Ward Howe to a member of the Regas Club of Athens responding to a condolence letter sent to her after the death of her husband and Perkins' Director Samuel Gridley Howe. Page 4 of 4.
Full text: ... ry by a formal oration, and I need not remind you that it will be best honored by a generous emulation of his beneficent and disinterested life.
I have the honor to subscribe myself as
Your obedient servant
Julia Ward Howe
Date: circa 1876
Format: letter
Digital Identifier: AG28-23-3
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Description: Letter from Julia Ward Howe to a member of the Regas Club of Athens responding to a condolence letter sent to her after the death of her husband and Perkins' Director Samuel Gridley Howe. Page 1 of 4.
Full text:
A. [S. Toupos T__]
[G]. Kapetanakis ___
Of the Regas Club of Athens
Gentlemen,
I have received with great gratification your friendly letter of condolence on the occasion of the death of my beloved husband, Dr. Samuel G. Howe, and also the resolution of esteem and respect with which the [Regan] Club has seen fit to respond to this mournful announcement.
An American who has served Greece has only done what he could to acknowledge to that wonderful country the indebt-
Date: circa 1876
Format: letter
Digital Identifier: AG28-23-1
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Description: Letter from Julia Ward Howe to a member of the Regas Club of Athens responding to a condolence letter sent to her after the death of her husband and Perkins' Director Samuel Gridley Howe. Pages 2 and 3 of 4.
Full text: ... edness of modern society. The Sciences, the Arts, the Institutions of today look to Greece as their venerable mother. The language we speak is tempered by her chaste and strong expression. Our very thought has been trained by the study [?] of her great thinkers. From Homer to the sacred __, our most precious literary treasures come to us from her hands.
The progress of time however unfolds new beauties, even in eternal truth. It remains a glorious fact that, before the freedom of America was half a century old, a warm pulse of gratitude would have carried the young blood of America into the heroic struggle with which the Greeks reconquered their independence.
Of the enthusiasts of those days, my husband may claim to have been one of the most constant in his affection. His love for your country never grows cold. He always hoped that every good would in time follow her emancipation, and remembered, as some did not, that a society so long oppressed as that of Greece could not fully achieve its moral __ in the course of a few [months?]
That all the years of my husband were working of the brilliant promise of his Greek expedition is a fact known to you, and to all who truly knew of him.
I am deeply touched by your proposal to honor his memo-
Date: circa 1876
Format: letter
Digital Identifier: AG28-23-2
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Description: Group portrait of the Howe, Richards, Hall, Anagnos family and other distinguished guests. Gathered for the centennial celebration of the birth of Samuel Gridley Howe in 1901. At the center of the group is Julia Ward Howe seated next to Massachusetts Senator George Frisbie Hoar. There are 32 people in the photograph with the women seated in the front row and men standing behind.
Date: 1901
Format: black and white photograph
Digital Identifier: AG28-22-1
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Description: Newspaper clipping from The Sunday Herald with a large group portrait of the Howe, Richards, Hall, Anagnos family and other distinguished guests. Gathered for the centennial celebration of the birth of Samuel Gridley Howe in 1901. At the center of the group is Julia Ward Howe seated next to Massachusetts Senator George Frisbie Hoar.
Full text: The Sunday Herald- Boston, November 17, 1901. Picture of Distinguished Group at the Howe Centennial.
1. Mrs. Laura E. Richards
2. Miss Julia Ward Richards
3. Mrs. Florence Howe Hall
4. Mrs. Henry M. Howe
5. Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott
6. William Endicott
7. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
8. Hon. George F. Hoar
9. Miss Mary E. French
10. Miss Lydia Y. Hayes
11. Miss Agnes Irwin
12. Miss Elizabeth Wood
13. Miss Emelie Poulsson
14. Prof. J. Irving Manatt
15. Mr. Richard C. Humphreys
16. Mr. Frank B. Sanborn
17. John Howe Hall
18. John Richards
19. George H. Richards
20. A. W. Bowden
21. M. Anagnos
22. Mrs. A. W. Bowden
23. Prof. Henry M. Howe
24. John S. Damrell
25. Gen. Francis H. Appleton
26. Charles E. Ware
27. Walter S. Fernald, M. D.
28. Edward E. Allen
29. Frank A. Hill
30. Rev. Edward E. Hale, D. D.
31. S. Lothrop Thorndike
32. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Coolidge
This picture was taken at the Howe centennial observances at Tremont Temple, Monday, Nov. 11, and is thought to be the only picture ever taken of a company in which so many members of the distinguished family were present.
Date: 1901
Format: newspaper
Digital Identifier: AG28-22-2
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Portrait in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery of Julia Ward Howe, a prominent abolitionist, social activist, poet and the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Find out more about her at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe
(from NPG's exhibit notes)
For years Julia Ward Howe yearned to take a more active part in public affairs. But her husband, the noted Boston reformer Samuel Gridley Howe, insisted that she confine herself to running their home. In 1861, however, she unwittingly transformed herself into a minor celebrity by writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Composed during a visit to Washington, DC, this fiercely marital poem, dedicated to the Union cause, was set to the music of "John Brown's Body." By 1865 it had become the North's unofficial wartime anthem. After the Civil War, Howe finally broke the constraints imposed by her husband to become one of the best-loved figures of the growing women's sufferage movement. This portrait was begun in Howe's last years by her son-in-law, who attempted to portray her as she might have looked years earlier, writing the "Battle Hymn."
Begun by John Elliott (1858-1925)
finished by William H. Cotton (1880-1958)
Oil on canvas, begun c. 1910 and finished c. 1925
Gift of Maud Howe Elliott
Designed by artist George Delany, the"Battle Hymn of the Republic Poster "captures some sentiment of the times. One of seven in the series of "Who We Are," posters created to help us through. The series is available individually, signed and sealed or signed and framed at www.americanflagposters.us
