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Author Bundy, Carol, 1958-

Title The nature of sacrifice : a biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64 / Carol Bundy.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 LOWELL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 548 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [487] -519) and index.
Contents The funeral, October 28, 1864 -- The Lowell-Jackson family -- Mrs. Lowell takes over, 1840-50 -- Harvard, 1850-52 -- The American scholar, 1854 -- Finding a career, 1854-56 -- Europe, 1856-58 -- Life in the West, 1858-60 -- The border state of Maryland, 1860-61 -- A regular commission, 1861-62 -- The Peninsula Campaign, 1862 -- Antietam, September 17, 1862 -- Raising a regiment, 1862-63 -- Romance and mutiny, Spring 1863 -- Defending the Capital, Summer 1863 -- Inglorious warfare, August-September 1863 -- All quiet along the Potomac, Winter 1863-64 -- Fighting the Gray Ghost, Spring 1864 -- Real cavalry fighting -- Winchester, September 19, 1864 -- Scorched earth -- The Woodstock races, October 9, 1864 -- The Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 -- Aftermath.
Subject Lowell, Charles Russell, 1835-1864.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Army -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
ISBN 0374120773 alkaline paper
9780374120771 alkaline paper
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