Today's American Minute — "Battle Hymn of the Republic" & efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" & efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade - American Minute with Bill Federer
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" & efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade
In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe traveled to Washington, D.C., and saw the city teeming with military, horses galloping all around and innumerable campfires burning. She wrote: "I went to bed that night as usual, and slept, according to my wont, quite soundly. I awoke in the gray of the morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to twine themselves in my mind ... "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea; With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free."