- GLC#
- GLC02484.03-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa 1910
- Author/Creator
- Jenkins, James H., 1841-?
- Title
- The story of a song
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 13.5 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- Jim Crow and the Great Migration
Jenkins account of the origins of the song "John Brown's Body." Credits Jenkins as "the author of 'John Brown's Body.'" Says the song was created spontaneously by a group of Union Soldiers, inspired partly by a soldier named John Brown.
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