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    "John Brown's Body" (originally known as "John Brown's Song") is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular...
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    requested, on November 2, "the bodies of such as may be executed." Wise instead had the body released to Mary Ann Day Brown, John's widow, who was awaiting it...
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    John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave. Spread over it the bloodstained flag of his song, For the sun to bleach, the wind and the birds to tear...
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  • "John Brown's Body" is an American marching song popular in the Union during the American Civil War. John Brown's Body may also refer to: John Brown's...
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    John Brown's Body is an American eight-piece reggae and dub band based out of Ithaca, New York and Boston, Massachusetts. They have been together for...
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    of the Secret Six, the group who funded John Brown's work. The tune and some of the lyrics of "John Brown’s Body" came from a much older folk hymn called...
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    Body" that portrayed him as a heroic martyr. Brown has been variously described as a heroic martyr and visionary, and as a madman and terrorist. John...
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  • John Brown most often refers to: John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 John...
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    Bleeding Kansas John Brown's body, about his funeral in North Elba John Brown's Body (song) John Brown's Fort John Brown's last speech John Brown's Provisional...
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  • participated in 28 studio albums since 1987. He is a founding member of John Brown's Body and 10 Foot Ganja Plant. He lives in Ithaca, New York. He has been...
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    of Howard University, and one of the contributors to the words of "John Brown's Body". He was the son of Rev. William Patton and the grandson of Anglo-Irish...
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  • Mrs Bradley. The title refers to both the novel Tom Brown's School Days and the song John Brown's Body. Mitchell had previously used a school setting for...
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    productions. He received his biggest accolades as a stage actor in John Brown's Body and Mister Roberts. Power died from a heart attack at the age of 44...
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    Virginia v. John Brown was a criminal trial held in Charles Town, Virginia, in October 1859. The abolitionist John Brown was quickly prosecuted for treason...
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    He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
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  • "epic sequence" of poetry inspired by Stephen Vincent Benét's work John Brown’s Body. Hayden based the poem in part on The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. He...
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    appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in a dramatization of John Brown's Body. The three-person cast also included Christopher Reeve and Laurie...
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    In 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theatre production of John Brown's Body. Later in 1968, she was in the off-Broadway production of The Empire...
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    authorship of, a number of popular 19th-century songs, including John Brown's Body, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me. Bishop...
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    a pocket they found that he was a son of John Brown, but they never learned which one. Nevertheless, the body was used as a means of showing the pro-slavery...
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  • Anderson, Owen Brown, Barclay Coppock, Meriam, Tidd). Symbols ‡ the bodies taken to Winchester Medical College † the 10 buried on the John Brown Farm  ¶ indicates...
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    family through the streets, the band at the head of the line playing “John Brown’s Body,” and the whole enthusiastic crowd singing the stirring battle hymn...
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    The John Brown Farm State Historic Site includes the home and final resting place of abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859). It is located on John Brown Road...
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  • unknown origin that is famously associated with the marching song "John Brown's Body", with the chorus "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah" – the chant replaces...
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    Abraham Lincoln and John Brown), and Judith Anderson. Laughton did not appear himself in either production, but John Brown's Body was recorded complete...
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    In There, sung by Noni Hazlehurst, and In The Car, sung by John Hamblin. John Brown's Body When Johnny Comes Marching Home New York Herald, August 11...
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  • to create the Union army marching song "John Brown's Body", which begins with the lyrics "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul...
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  • accreditation and its student body continued to hover at around 300 during the 1950s. After the founder's death in 1957, John Brown Jr. worked to improve the...
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    grass With the old manage and light ease of hand. — Passage from "John Brown's Body", a 1928 poem by Stephen Vincent Benét Their sleepless, bloodshot...
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  • Volunteer in 1861–2 while marching down Broadway to the tune of "John Brown's Body". In the July 1871 issue of The Galaxy, in the story "Overland", the...
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