[ Photographs ] (Civil War) Salt Prints Portrait of First Lt. James Jackson Lowell standing with the aid of crutches. Oval salted paper print, 7.75x 5.75inches, with the original gilt-edged overmat. Circa 1861 E1800-2200 A poignant study of Lt.james

[ Photographs ] (Civil War) Salt Prints Portrait of First Lt. James Jackson Lowell standing with the aid of crutches. Oval salted paper print, 7.75x 5.75inches, with the original gilt-edged overmat. Circa 1861 E1800-2200 A poignant study of Lt.james Lowell 1837-1862, a Harvard graduate, who was a First Lieutenant in the 20th Mass. Vols. he was shot in the thigh at Ball's Bluff, in 1861, and spent several months recuperating at the family home, in Cambridge. he returned to duty in February 1862 and on June 30th led his company into battle at Savage's Station where he received a mortal wound in the fight at Glendale: he died on July 4th. Accompanying the lot are photostatic copies of a biography of Lowell that appeared in Harvard Memorial Biographies, Vol. I (Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1866, pp. 422-436, and related background information.