. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . R. G. Shaw:— I write of one while witli dim eyes I think of three,Who weep not others fair and brave as he?Ah! When the fight is won . . The formal letter in which Lowell acknowl-edged the gift of the sword contains a passagewhich serves to illustrate the spirit with which 48 MEMOIRS OF THE WAR OF 6i our soldiers went to the war: When the Classmeets in years to come, and honors its states-men and judges, its divines and doctors, letalso the score who went to fight for their coun-try be remembered and let not tho
. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . R. G. Shaw:— I write of one while witli dim eyes I think of three,Who weep not others fair and brave as he?Ah! When the fight is won . . The formal letter in which Lowell acknowl-edged the gift of the sword contains a passagewhich serves to illustrate the spirit with which 48 MEMOIRS OF THE WAR OF 6i our soldiers went to the war: When the Classmeets in years to come, and honors its states-men and judges, its divines and doctors, letalso the score who went to fight for their coun-try be remembered and let not those who neverreturned be forgotten,—those who died for thecause of civilization and law, and the self-restrained freedom which is their result. A friend wrote his mother:— Dont you think that Jims dying has ac-complished as much as his life may have done?I never knew how much I relied upon Jim,—not so much for his friendship, which I thinkI prized above that of all others, but for hisalmost startling simplicity and correctness ofjudgment in all matters we talked WILLIAM LOWKLL PUTNAM WILLIAM LOWELL PUTNAM 49 WILLIAM LOWELL PUTNAM Born in Boston, Mass., July 9, 1840. DiedOctober 22, 1861. July 21, 1861, Second Lieu-tenant in Twentieth Regiment, Fellmortally wounded at Balls Bluff, October 21,1861. William Lowell Putnam was born in Boston,July 9, 1840. He was the youngest of ourgroup of cousins who used to shout Scottsrousing verses as we played Highlanders andLowlanders among the wooded rocks behindthe house on School Street, Roxbury. William sometimes said, as he grew older,that there was no circumstance in his life thathe would wish changed. There was, however,one real drawback to the happiness of thathome,—one stain upon the glory of the UnitedStates of America, to whose interests all weredevoted: I cannot remember the time whenslavery was not mentioned with indignation bythat patriotic family and the guests who gath-ered round their hospitable board.
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