Civil War

A sound recording from "Gone with the Wind" as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara fled Atlanta in a horse drawn carriage as it was being burned down.

The chorus to the patriotic spiritual used to rally Union troops during the American Civil War. The song was adapted from its original version, "John Brown's Body" (an American folk song composed by William Steffe), by Julia Ward Howe,. The lyrics were initially published in The Atlantic Monthly in February, 1862.