Written by Florence Howe Hall

The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

by Florence Howe Hall

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, “the crimson flower of battle,” bloomed in a single night. It sprang from the very soil of the conflict, in the midst of the Civil War. Yet the plant which produced it was of slow growth, with roots reaching far back into the past.In order to understand how this song of our nation sprang into sudden being we must st..