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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Julie Ward Howe

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


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On November 18, 1861 Julie Ward Howe and her husband Samuel Gridley Howe, witnessed a Confederate defeat of Union troops in the Civil War, which inspired her to pen the lyrics to "Batte Hymn of the Republic."

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