. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . Infantry, Sep-tember 12, 1862. First Lieutenant Fifty-fourth , March 23, 1863. Captain, MayII, 1863. Killed at Fort Wagner, South Caro-lina, July 18, 1863. Cabot Jackson Russel was born in New York,July 21,1844. During his childish years his pas-sion was for playing knight-errant and woundedsoldier. Over the boys bed hung the portraitof John Brown of Osawatomie. Cabot Russelentered Harvard College in 1861, but was sus-pended for inattention to his studies, which helater greatly regretted. In June, 1862,
. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . Infantry, Sep-tember 12, 1862. First Lieutenant Fifty-fourth , March 23, 1863. Captain, MayII, 1863. Killed at Fort Wagner, South Caro-lina, July 18, 1863. Cabot Jackson Russel was born in New York,July 21,1844. During his childish years his pas-sion was for playing knight-errant and woundedsoldier. Over the boys bed hung the portraitof John Brown of Osawatomie. Cabot Russelentered Harvard College in 1861, but was sus-pended for inattention to his studies, which helater greatly regretted. In June, 1862, on ajourney to the West, after the war had begun,he wrote his father: I dont know about Jimor Charley [Lowell]. If anything has happenedto either one of them I shall want to when he heard of Lieutenant James Low-ells death he wrote, Now I shall certainly go,and turned back to his home in New age v/as just eighteen. He was appointedto a vacant sergeantship in the Forty-fourthMassachusetts Regiment, which was then re-cruiting under Colonel F. L. Lee. His com-. CABOT JACKSON RUSSEL CABOT JACKSON RUSSEL 55 manding officers highly commended his pluck,endurance, and fidelity to duty. November ihe wrote, I hope I and the regiment will be-have well in to-morrows fight. On March 4, 1863, Cabot Russel appeared inBoston to accept a second lieutenancy underColonel Robert G. Shaw in the Fifty-fourth(colored) Regiment. He was soon given thecommand of Company H and became noted forcareful drill and discipline. July 17, off MorrisIsland, he described an engagement in whichthey had to retreat and suffered heavy men did nobly. Adjutant James wrote,Capt. Russel took part in the sharp skirmishon James Island (July 16), where his companybore the brunt of the battle and he showed dis-tinguished ability and courage. On the nightof the 17th, orders were received to join Gen-eral Strongs Brigade. On the i8th the Fifty-fourth Regiment reported for duty to Brigadier-General S
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