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2LT William Lowell Putnam. William L. Putnam was a law student when the Civil War began. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Company E, Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on July 10, 1861, and mustered on July 22, 1861. He was mortally wounded in his bowels at Ball's Bluff, Virginia, on October 21, 1861.
Photo. 3.522. William Lowell Putnam served in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. He died on 22 October 1861 of wounds received at the Battle of Ball's Bluff. After Putnam's death, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke eulogized "the boy soldier" as a "pure soul sacrificed in a struggle with evil." Lt. Putnam, an ardent abolitionist, had died ...
Mar 21, 2012 · Before the war Harvard, like the nation, was a place of factions and frictions. Some undergraduates embraced a fierce New England abolitionism. One of them was the angelically handsome William Lowell Putnam, a Harvard Law School student who served with Holmes in the 20th.
- Harvardgazette
- "Does It Awaken You to The Fact That Politicians Are Not Generals?"
- Views of Ball's Bluff
- Eyewitness Accounts of This Battle
- Two of The Casualties
Intended as a “slight demonstration,” the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, fought on 21 October 1861, was a cruel introduction to war and its blunders for the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—known as the “Harvard Regiment” because of its well-educated, socially-elite officers. In this, the regiment’s first engagement, the death of Lt. William Lowell Pu...
"Battle of Ball's Bluff Fought Oct 21. 1861. Map Showing Position of Troops between ..." MapThis map show the position of soldiers on the day of the Battle of Ball's Bluff, outside of Leesburg, Va. "Cliff at Ball's Bluff opposite Harrison's Island" EngravingThis engraving depicts the steep cliff at Ball's Bluff and conveys how this location became ...
Letter from Caspar Crowninshield to Harriet Sears Crowninshield, 22 October ... In this letter to his mother, written the day after the battle, Caspar Crowninshield describes the Battle of Ball's Bluff, which was fought in Loudon County, Virginia, on 21 October 1861.Capt. Caspar Crowninshield Carte de visite by James Wallace Black, 1862This carte d...
The Vacant Chair BroadsideThis song was inspired by the death of eighteen-year-old lt. John William ("Willie") Grout, who died in the Battle of Ball's Bluff.William Lowell Putnam Carte de visite by John Adams Whipple, 1861This carte de visite photograph depicts William Lowell Putnam, who served in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. He died o...
About Lt. William Lowell Putnam. William L. Putnam was a law student when the Civil War began. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Company E, Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on July 10, 1861, and mustered on July 22, 1861. He was mortally wounded in his bowels at Ball's Bluff, Virginia, on October 21, 1861.
Oct 24, 2011 · October 24, 2011 9:30 pm. Comment. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Two cousins, on the field at battle’s start, catch each other’s eye, salute, and then — “when next I looked,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. writes of his cousin, James Jackson Lowell, “he was gone.”. At Cedar Mountain, Capt. Henry Sturgis Russell is ...
Mar 1, 2023 · William Lowell Putnam (July 9, 1840-October 22, 1861) was the son of Samuel and Mary Lowell Putnam; the grandson of Rev. Charles Lowell, Unitarian minister of the West Church in Boston from 1806 until his death on January 20, 1861; and the cousin of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr.
