When 14th Regiment went to Fort Warren, they enjoyed singing the song John Brown's Body, even after the 2nd Infantry ("Tiger Battalion," who created the song) had left the fort. When the 14th went to Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Julia Ward Howe visited the camp of the Massachusetts soldiers. The stirring strains of "John Brown's Body" so moved Lincoln that he asked Julia Ward Howe to compose a hymn from the tune. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was her inspired answer.