Download or read book Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell written by Edward Waldo Emerson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1907 Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell presents the biography and collected correspondence of the nephew of poet and abolitionist leader James Russell Lowell. It spans both the younger Lowell’s collegiate education and his military service in the American Civil War. His letters recount specific military campaigns and articulate the moralistic motivations that led Northern idealists to wage war against "the vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored."