Julia W. Howe, while submitting a certain poem to The Atlantic: “I am sad & spleeny, & begin to have fears that I may not be, after all, the greatest woman alive. Isn’t this a melancholy view of things? But it is a vale, you know. When will the world come to end?” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Julia Ward Howe's “Battle Hymn of the Republic” continues to inspire a nation to realize its ideals.
