Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell: Captain, Sixth United States Cavalry; Colonel, Second Massachusetts Cavalry; Brigadier-General, United States Volunteers (American Civil War Classics) - Softcover

Emerson, Edward Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570035946 ISBN 13: 9781570035944

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2005

Synopsis

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. This first paperback edition of Lowell's biography and correspondence is supplemented by an introduction by Joan Waugh in which she investigates the connection between Lowell's values and actions. Her examination of the inherent sense of duty demonstrated by Lowell, his family, and fellows offers a distinctively Boston Brahmin answer to why young men of the North and South took up arms and went to war.

About this title

About the Author:

EDWARD WALDO EMERSON (1844–1930) was the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a friend of the Lowell family. A distinguished editor, Emerson devoted himself to publishing works of and about the writers of his father’s generation.

JOAN WAUGH is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1570035946
• ISBN 13: 9781570035944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496