articularly essential for
his success. He had all that birth and wealth, breeding, education, and
tradition could give. He offered up, in full measure, all those things
which make life most worth living. He was handsome and beloved. He had a
serene and beautiful nature, and was at once brave and simple. Above
all things, he was fitted for the task which he performed and for the
sacrifice which he made. The call of the country and of the time came
to him, and he was ready. He has been singled out for remembrance from
among many others of equal sacrifice, and a monument is rising to his
memory in Boston, because it was his peculiar fortune to live and die
for a great principle of humanity, and to stand forth as an ideal and
beautiful figure in a struggle where the onward march of civilization
was at stake. He lived in those few and crowded years a heroic life, and
he met a heroic death. When he fell, sword in hand, on the parapet of
Wagner, leading his black troops in a desperate assault, we can only say
of him as Bunyan said of "Valiant for Truth": "And then he passed over,
and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side."

CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL

Wut's wurds to them whose faith an' truth
On war's red techstone rang true metal,
Who ventered life an' love an, youth
For the gret prize o' death in battle?

To him who, deadly hurt, agen
Flashed on afore the charge's thunder,
Tippin' with fire the bolt of men
Thet rived the rebel line asunder?
--Lowell.

Charles Russell Lowell was born in Boston, January 2, 1835. He was the
eldest son of Charles Russell and Anna Cabot (Jackson) Lowell, and the
nephew of James Russell Lowell. He bore the name, distinguished in many
branches, of a family which was of the best New England stock. Educated
in the Boston public schools, he entered Harvard College in 1850.
Although one of the youngest members of his class, he went rapidly to
the front, and graduated not only the first scholar of his year, but
the foremost man of his class. He was, however, much more than a fine
scholar, for even then he showed unusual intellectual qualities. He read
widely and loved letters. He was a student of philosophy and religion, a
thinker, and, best of all, a man of ideals--"the glory of youth," as
he called them in his valedictory oration. But he was something still
better and finer than a mere idealist; he was a man of actio