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Complete 8 pages APA formatted article: Poems by Julia Ward Howe and William Shakespear. She wrote the poem “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in November 1861 in a flash of inspiration during the American Civil War after she had visited a Union Army camp where she heard soldiers singing ‘John Brown’s body’. Her companion James Freeman Clarke suggested Howe write something to raise the morale of the troops. The next morning, she reminisced, the poem started taking shape in her mind. It was published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. However, “Battle Hymn” was popularized as a song by Union chaplain Charles Cardwell McCabe, who often included it in his lectures and sang it on important occasions. The hymn was also a favorite of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and remains a staple of American patriotic and religious music.

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