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 spend some time, she and her cohorts in the carriage sang a few of the war songs so popular those days, among them, "John Brown's Body," which contained the provocative words, "John Brown's ...

Almost as if to keep in step singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," supplementing it with additional verses from the John Brown song. — Benjamin Quarles, from "Allies for Freedom", 1974 ...