The song is Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The lyrics ... After the audience responded with loud applause, the president, with tears in his eyes, cried out, “Sing ...

"Here's a song that was reportedly sung by both sides in the Civil War," Cash says, guitar in hand, to kick off a performance of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." The real history on that point ...

Bush and former Presidents Clinton, Carter, and Ford) joined voices to sing Julia Ward Howe's defiant anthem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." For many, the singing of this hymn, which enjoins ...

There is no song that more vividly evokes that conflict than "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Julia Ward Howe wrote the famous words­ "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ...

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) gave the United States — and the world — some of the most inspirational words ever written. She penned "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in November 1861, during a ...

Though the Battle Hymn of the Republic is more than 150 years old, it is still embraced by Americans of all political persuasions. According to Ben Soskis, co-author of a new book about the song ...

One the most powerful songs heard at memorial services and other events is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", whose lyrics were written 140 years ago today during America's Civil War of the 1860s.

On Nov. 18, 1861, Julia Ward Howe, a prominent Boston poet, attended a review of Union troops outside Washington, D.C. As her carriage made its way back to the city, inching along roads clogged ...

Later, looking back on the birth of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" 150 years ago this month, Julia didn't mention her famous husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, who had funded the militant abolitionist ...

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Julia Ward Howe was a poet and author. She is best known for “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” which was first published in The Atlantic.