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Brevet major general. William Hopkins Morris (April 22, 1827 – August 26, 1900) was an American soldier, an officer in the United States Army, author, editor, and inventor. He served as a brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army during the American Civil War .
Morris fell heir to this Gothic enthusiasm almost from infancy. His omnivorous reading of medieval tales and romances, his intimacy with Ruskin and Rossetti, and the curiously medieval circumstances of his boyhood combined to produce a sensibility perhaps as genuinely medieval as any in his century.
William Hopkins Morris. Civil War Union Brevet Major General. Born in New York City, he graduated from West Point in 1851, served three years in the Army, resigned his commission and served as assistant editor of the New York Journal.
Morris, William (1834–1896), designer, author, and visionary socialist, was born at Elm House, Walthamstow, on 24 March 1834, eldest surviving son and fourth of the ten children of William Morris (1797–1847), financier in the City of London, and his wife, Emma (1805–1894), daughter of Joseph Shelton, a teacher of music in Worcester, and granddaughter of John Shelton, proctor of the ...
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Brigadier general. Brevet major general. William Hopkins Morris (April 22, 1827 – August 26, 1900) was an American soldier, an officer in the United States Army, author, editor, and inventor. He served as a brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Successively renowned as poet, designer, calligrapher, businessman, architectural conservationist, pioneer socialist, utopianist, and typographer-printer, William Morris (1834–96) based his life’s work on his passion for all things medieval.
William Morris and the Middle Ages : a collection of essays, together with a catalogue of works exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 28 September-8 December 1984 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
