Hymn Of Glory

Why they sang about John Brown

On May 12, 1861, a flag-raising ceremony was held at Fort Warren, an Army post on George’s Island in Boston Harbor. The growing ranks of the Twelfth Massachusetts surprised inductees with the first performance of a new song.

The “John Brown Song,” as the soldiers called it, borrowed the tune of a popular Methodist hymn - a melody you probably know today as “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” with its famous chorus of “Glory, glory, hallelujah.” But in May of 1861, Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn” lyrics still lay six months in the future. “John Brown’s Body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave,” the Massachusetts soldiers sang. “His soul is marching on!”

The song became a hit. Two months later, Boston newspapers reported troops singing the tune in the city. By the time the lyrics were printed by a local music publisher, the company announced that “one can hardly walk on the streets for five minutes without hearing it whistled or hummed.”

Why did John Brown, a violent abolitionist revolutionary hanged for treason in Virginia, inspire a stirring song first heard, of all places, on an island in Boston Harbor? The answer reveals something about the complexity of the North’s beliefs about why they were fighting the Civil War, and the surprisingly wide range of causes that Brown - a New Englander turned antislavery zealot - came to represent in the fractured America of the time.

By the 1850s, Boston was a stronghold for American abolitionism. Known as the “Cradle of Liberty,” it was one of the most welcoming destinations for free and fugitive blacks. When, in 1854, the Kansas territory was opened for a popular vote over slavery’s expansion, Bostonians founded the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company to send voting settlers to the territory under arms.

John Brown, a failed businessman then living in New York State, was similarly inspired by this opportunity. Originally from Connecticut, Brown had spent some formative years in Springfield, Mass, where he was heavily involved in the abolitionist cause. When Brown arrived in Kansas in 1855, the territory was in chaos. Proslavery and antislavery settlers clashed in a simmering conflict, whose outcome stood to swing the balance of votes in Washington.

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