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It's also apocalyptic;
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some would say purple in its blood.
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Julia Ward Howe wrote
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the famous "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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In early 1862 while overlooking an encampment,
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a huge encampment of the Union Army near Washington.
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And she stayed until sunset and saw the fires,
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which she called "The watch fires."
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And she wrote the great apocalyptic paean of the Civil War.
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We will come back to this question,
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especially next week,
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when we deal with the story, the problem of emancipation.