A writer and poet, Julia Ward Howe knew fame after the success of her Civil War Song titled, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. In the wake of the terror and destruction that both the American Civil War and Europe’s Franco-Prussian war caused, Howe suggested a day called Mother’s Peace Day that promoted peace and unity the world over. The day was championed by mothers who had lost sons to war and was celebrated by women coming together to sing, share essays, listen to sermons, and pray in the name of peace. Many American cities held church services on the day up until the mid-1900s.
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