Julia Ward Howe

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TITLE: [Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) , half-length portrait, facing front]. CALL NUMBER: BIOG FILE [P&P]. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-99602 (b&w film copy neg.)MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1902. NOTES: H18619 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.E. Purdy, Boston.

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Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic.".

Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", set to William Steffe's already-existing music, was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War.