John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah ...

Soon after, it was published in the "Atlantic Monthly" as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown the Scotsman would not live to hear this version. He died early in the war, drowned in the ...