On this day in 1862, “The Battle Hymn of The Republic”, a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
“Glory, Glory”, the rally song for the Georgia Bulldogs, was adapted to the tune of “John Brown’s Body” by Georgia Students and began singing the song at football games in the early 1890s.
The “Glory, Hallelujah” tune was a folk hymn developed in camp meetings in the South that were popular in the 1800s. In the first known version, “Canaan’s Happy Shore,” the text includes the verse “Oh!