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Music as Memory: Spirituals, Minstrelsy, and Marching Songs during the Age of Abolitionism

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) "Battle hymn of the republic": autograph manuscript (fair copy), 1906.

The famous first line of the "Battle Hymn" in Howe's own hand.

bMS Am 2214 (334) – Gift of Rosalind Richards, 1951.