Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Richards

Julia never knew the full extent of her husband's involvement with Brown and considered the raid to be a 'wild and chimerical' scheme. Samuel was one of the conspirators who had funded John Brown's failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion in Virginia. Julia Ward Howe, after writing the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'īoth of the Howes were outspoken opponents of slavery. I returned to bed and fell asleep, saying to myself, I like this better than most things I have written.

Julia Ward Howe, after writing the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic''>

In November, he arrived, accompanied by his wife Julia Ward Howe. Samuel Gridley Howe, a well-known educator and reformer from Boston, to investigate health hazards among the new recruits. Concerned about sanitary conditions in these makeshift military camps, the federal government asked Dr. Around Washington, D.C., thousands of Union volunteers pitched their tents. In the fall of 1861, the nation's capital had been turned into an army camp, as Lincoln and his generals prepared to fight the Civil War. Samuel Gridley Howe (1876) Margaret Fuller (1883) (autobiography) Reminiscences (1899). (poetry) Passion Flowers (1854) Words for the Hour (1857) At Sunset (1910) (travel literature) From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey (1868) Trip to Cuba (1860) (social commentary) Modern Society (1881) Is Polite Society Polite? (1895) (biography) Memoir of Dr. Published her first book of poems, Passion Flowers, anonymously (1854) was active as an abolitionist (1850s) founded one of the nation's first woman's clubs (1868) was first president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association helped create the Woman's International Peace Association (1870s) for 50 years, wrote and lectured on women's suffrage, social reform, literature and liberal Christianity. Richards (1850–1943) Maud Howe Elliott (1854–1948) Samuel Howe (who died of diphtheria in childhood, 1861). Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts daughter of Samuel Ward (a Wall Street banker) and Julia Rush (Cutler) Ward (a published amateur poet) married Samuel Gridley Howe (Boston educator and reformer who pioneered with the blind, beginning with Laura Bridgman), in 1843 children: Julia Rowana Anagnos (1844–1886) Florence Howe (namesake and god-daughter of Florence Nightingale) Henry Marion Howe Laura E. American poet, author, social reformer and women's suffrage leader, best known for writing the Civil War anthem, 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.' Born Julia Ward on May 27, 1819, in New York City died on October 17, 1910, in Newport, Rhode Island buried in Mt.

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Richards