she came to washington with her husband, doctor samuel gridley howe.f work himself and not shy about talking about his ability to do great things. she came, she resumed the backseat will he was off doing things in washington with the sanitary commission which was sort of a early version of the red cross. she went in a wagon with some friends across the potomac, and watched the union soldiers parade and do their military kinds of things. on the way back, they were surrounded by union soldiers, she was struck by two things bridwell was the fact they were very young. some not match older than her own children. secondly they started singing what they started singing was john brown's body. was a very round ching martin june 1 of the persons accompanied her was the minister you know here you could do better job than that that is denigrating to john brown. can she process that in that night when she went back to the hotel she woke up in the middle of the night grab some paper and started writing. writing and writing a poem on scraps of paper. the next morning

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in the early 1860s when the war had just begun he came to washington with her husband, doctor samuel gridley howe.who was a piece of work and self and not shy about talking about his ability to do great things. she came and sort of was in the backseat while he was off doing things on official washington with the senate commission which was sort of a early version of the red cross. she went in the wagon with some friends across the potomac and watched the union soldiers arrayed and do their military kinds of things. on the way back they were surrounded by union soldiers and she was struck by two things. one was the fact that they were very young. some not much older than her own children and secondly that they started singing and what they started singing was john brown's body. and it was a very rousing marching to the one of the people who accompanied her was her master from massachusetts and he said you know harriet, you could do a better job writingsomething than that . that's kind of denigrating to johnbrown . she processed obviously that night when she went back to the hotel where she an