Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-05

1 to lind Hobler record The young me
of this stock seem to have been of higl
rank, distinguished specially for intel
lectual power and attainments. Surei.
! the sickle of war has never been put NOR
unsparingly into any field. First in or
der comes Willie Putnam, aged twenty
one, q boy OF the highest culture ant
promise, mortally wounded ct Ball
Bluff in October, 1861, in the hrs
months of the war, while In the ect o
going to the help Of q wounded com
nanion. AT the same bitter fight hi
cousin. James Jackson Lowell, aged "a
was badly hurt, but after short absence
| to recruit, be joined his regiment again
and fell. on June 80, 1862. "TelI nJ
father that was dressing the line of my
company when / was hit, was his last
message home He had been, first in
his year at Harvard, and was taking
private pupils in the Law school when
the war wroke out Warren Russell fell
at Bull Run ID August, 1862. Many OF
us may remember the account, which
was reprinted in the Times and other
papers, of the presentation of the colors
10 the Second Massachusetts infantry by
Mr.. Mo1tley, at Boston, in the summer
of 1851. 1t attracted special notice
from the fact that the author of the
q History of the Dutch Republic had
been 80 lately living amongst Us, and
was so well known and liked here. The
grouh of the officers who received these
colors were the very .jmenease dOres OF
MISUNDERSTANDING, Dwith, Abbott,
Robson, Russell, Shaw, Gordon, Savage,
Perkins. Such a roll speaks volumes to
all who have any acquaintance with New
England history. Those colors have
come home riddled, tattered, blackened;
but five-sixths of the young officers have
given their lives for them, and Of the one
thousand rank and file who then sur
rounded them, scarcely onehundred and
City survive. This, by the way. refer
to the muster, because Rober. Shaw was
amongst those ofhcers--a name already
honored in these pages, and another
nephew of LowelIs. ShaWs's sister
married Charles Lowell. of whom more
presently We all know how Robert
Shaw, after two years gallant service,
accepted the command of the 6rst black
regiment raised in Massachusetts (the
Fifty.fourth,) how he lei them in the
operations before Charleston, and was
buried with his "niggers" in the pit un.
der Fort Wagner-the greatest sepulture
earned by any soldier of this century.
By his side fought and died Cabot Rus
sell, the third of Lowell's nephews, then
a captain OF black company. Stephen
George Perkins, another nephew, was
killed ut Cedar creek; and Francis Dat
ton Russell at one of the innumerable
battles. lst 4&8h n
CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL.
pass to the last on the list, and the.
most remarkable. Charles Russell Low
ell, the only brother Of the James who
died dressing his line" was also the
6rst scholar OF his year (l854) at Har-
ward. He has visited Europe for health,
and made long riding tours in Spain
and Algeris, where he became consu-
mate horseman. On the day after the
Sixth Massachusetts was fred on in.
Baltimore streets Charles Lowell heard
of it, and started by the next train to
Washington, passing through Baltimore
All the communication between the two
cities was suspended, but he arrived on
foot at Washington in forty-eight hours.
In these FIRST days of confusion he be-
came agent for Massachusetts at Wash
ingtoD, and brought order out of chaos
for his own State before entering tie
army His power Of command and or
ganization gained him rapid promotion.
He served with distinction in the PENN
sula campaigns of Mcclellan, and after
Antietam, was selected to carry the cap
tured standards to Washington. He
raised q second cavalry regiment at
home in the winter Of 1862 He was
placed in command of the cavalry force
which protected Washington during the
dark DAYS of 1853. In Sheridan's brill
liant campaign Of 1864 be commanded
the cavalry brigade, of four regular reg
iments and the Second Massachusetts
volunteer cavalry. He had thirteen
horses shot under him before the battle
Of Cedar Creek, on October 10; was
badly wounded early on that day, and
lifted on bis fourteenth horse to lead the
final charge, so faint that he had to give
bis orders 10 whisper. Urged by them
to leave the field, he pressed on to the
critical point of attack; and himself led
the last charge which ended one of the
most obstinate battles Of the war. It is
the death of this nephew which wrang
from his uncle the lines which occur in
one of the last" Biglow Papers" pub
lished in one of the last winters num-
bers Of the Atlantic Magazine: -
"wut's words to them whose faith and truth
On War's red tschstone rang true metal
Who Eentured lifa an, Iowa. an. youth.
For the gret prize o. deth In battls1
TO him who. deadly hurt, ageu t
) Flashed on afore the charges thunder,
Tippin' with hre the bolt OF men
% That rived the rebel line asnnder.
eTain't right to hsv the youag 60 fat,
Ali throbbins full O. gifts and graces,
leaving life Rpaupars dry as duit
To5try and make b'iieye III their places;
Nothln' tells us wat we Ellas;
Theirs gaps our lives can't never say In,
And that world seems so fur from this,
-, LET fer US loafsrs to grow gray in.o
He died next day Of his wounds, leav-
ing widow of twenty, himself not
thirty. The gazette in which his COM
as general was published did not
reach the army till after his death.
Sheridan, with the generosity which
most Of the great northern captains have
shown, declared that the country could
better have spared himself, and that
there was no Ione quality OF a soldier
which he could have wished added to
Charles Howell - - -
Ny first example, then, gives as one
family, in which there was no soldiers in
1860, losing eight young men under
thirty in little. more than three years
fighting. !. - nsHA e B&s1