Charles Russell Lowell

Charles Russell Lowell

American Civil War

  • Peninsula Campaign
  • Battle of Antietam
  • Battle of Cedar Creek

Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. (January 2, 1835 – October 20, 1864) was a railroad executive, foundryman, and General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek and was mourned by a number of leading generals. Lowell's life was first immortalized in a 1907 biography by Edward Waldo Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more recently in a 2005 biography by Carol Bundy, a distant relative.

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