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First Published In 1907, Life And Letters Of Charles Russell Lowell Presents The Biography And Collected Correspondence Of The Nephew Of Poet And Abolitionist Leader James Russell Lowell. The Volume Spans Both The Younger Lowell's Collegiate Education And His Military Service In The American Civil War. A Native Bostonian, Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864) Was First In The Harvard Class Of 1854. He Joined The Union Ranks A Fervent Abolitionist And Fought With Near-reckless Zeal Until His Death In Battle At Cedar Creek, Virginia, In October 1864. Lowell Served On Gen. George B. Mcclellan's Staff In 1862, Fought John S. Mosby's Confederate Raiders In 1863 And 1864, And Participated In The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign As Cavalry Brigade Commander. Lowell Was Married To Josephine Shaw, Sister Of Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Commander Of The 54th Massachusetts Colored Troops. His Letters Begin In 1852 And Reveal The Values And Convictions Of Many Of Boston's Transcendentalist, Reform-minded Elite. Sophisticated, Philosophical, And Eminently Literate, His Letters Effectively Recount Specific Military Campaigns And Articulate The Moralistic Motivations That Led Northern Idealists Such As Lo

Author

Charles Russell Lowell, jr.; Edward Waldo Emerson; Joan Waugh

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press ; Eurospan [distributor

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570035944

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14