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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Know Your Medal of Honor Recipients:

Sergeant James B. Thompson (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His citation reads:

Capture of flag of 15th Georgia Infantry (C.S.A.).

Surgeon James Harry Thompson (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on March 14, 1862, at New Bern, North Carolina. His citation reads:

Voluntarily reconnoitered the enemy's position and carried orders under the hottest fire.

Corporal John Thompson (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on February 6, 1865, at Hatchers Run, Vriginia. His citation reads:

As color bearer with most conspicuous gallantry preceded his regiment in the assault and planted his flag upon the enemy's works.


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The I’m just sayin… Hymn of the Week

The Battle Hymn of the Republic


This is a great song that, sadly, is usually only used around the 4th of July. The lyrics were written by Julia Ward Howe and put to the music of John Brown’s Body. You can read a lot more about it here. There are a good many versions of this song on YouTube… for my money, I like to listen to up-tempo versions of it.


Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal";
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.
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