 John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see,
Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be,
And soon thruout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free,
For his soul is marching on.These themes were further refined two months later by Julia Ward Howe; her version came to be known as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".Where Patton only wrote ""of the Christ we are to see"", Howe testified that "her eyes" had already ""seen the glory of the coming of the Lord"".Patton graduated at the New York University in 1839 and at the Union Theological Seminary in 1842.