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847: 211: 31: 472:, participating in the engagements of Secessionville, Culpeper, and Rapidan Station, and in the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, Chancellorsville, and in the Red River campaign under Gen. Banks, where he was wounded in action, March 21, 1864. He was brevetted brigadier general for "gallantry and good conduct," and on September 29, 1864, was mustered out on account of wounds received in action. He was a frequent contributor to periodical literature and the press, and delivered numerous addresses. 330:(2 vols., 1848), twenty-one stories of a tract-like nature bearing such titles as "My Mother's Gold Ring", "I Am Afraid There Is A God", "Groggy Harbor", and "An Irish Heart", first published in separate issues between 1833 and 1843. These were widely distributed by religious and temperance societies as well as by Sargent himself. His temperance tales were translated into several languages. 294:, pours furious scorn on an official of the college with whom he had had a dispute about the quality of the food at the commons table. He studied law after leaving college and was admitted to the bar on February 19, 1811, but he never practised to any extent, for he inherited wealth and greatly increased it by conservative speculation. 483:, was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He became major in his former regiment, January 2, 1864, lieutenant colonel, September 30, and was mortally wounded in an engagement on Meherrin River. 346:
entitled "Dealings with the Dead" (published in book form in 1856), which in spite of their name did not lack light touches. Under such pseudonyms as Sigma, Amgis, Saveall, and others, he wrote for numerous other publications, and he aroused considerable interest by attacking the
326:, which he took up with characteristic assertiveness. From 1830 till the approach of the Civil War he spoke and wrote on this theme so frequently and vigorously that he became one of the most uncompromising and conspicuous leaders in the crusade against liquor. He wrote 495:
on him, thereby recognizing his public services and condoning his undergraduate rebellion, for the violence of which he often expressed regret. He was preeminently a good hater, but he was a conspicuous man in his day and helped to develop a sentiment in favor of
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do the saloonkeeper. Even one of his obituaries refers to him as a man of "harsh prejudices", though it acknowledges the urbanity of his manners in his ordinary dealings and the warmth of his attachment to his family and friends.
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to Boston and profited so much by his industry, prudence, and popularity that he occupied what was for those days a conspicuously expensive mansion, although his character was notable for thrift and dread of ostentation.
460:, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry, in 1861, became colonel of the same regiment in October 1862, was on duty with the forces in 370:
Though he showed enthusiasm for the past, his efforts were generally directed towards blasting something offensive to him out of existence. At seventy-five he published
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His younger son, Lucius Jr., graduated at Harvard in 1848, and at the medical school there in 1857, becoming house surgeon and dispensary physician at the
202:(June 25, 1786 – June 2, 1867) was an American author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate who was a member of the prominent Sargent family of Boston. 916: 814: 314:), an ode of his, "Wreaths for the Chieftain," was sung. He wrote constantly for the newspapers and became well known for his literary interests. 479:. He was commissioned surgeon in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers in May 1861, but resigned in October of that year, and became captain in the 356: 921: 926: 911: 886: 210: 931: 866: 428:
After the death of his first wife in 1824, Lucius Manlius married Sarah Cutler Dunn (1797–1868) on July 14, 1825. Their son:
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Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: A Historical Encyclopedia
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in 1804. He did not complete his studies there, for a pamphlet published by him in 1807,
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Lucius Manlius attended a number of elementary and secondary schools, including
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On April 3, 1816, he married Mary Binney (1786–1824), a sister of
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and others for their antislavery views as violently as his
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The Culex of Virgil; with a Translation into English Verse
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(2013). 681: 456:he was senior aide on the staff of Gov. 436:Sargent died in Boston on June 2, 1867. 372:The Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss 209: 721: 653: 550: 531: 432:Lucius Manlius Sargent, Jr. (1826–1864) 115: 1816; died 1824) 859: 728:. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company 647: 622: 452:there in 1845. At the opening of the 556: 226:, the youngest of seven children of 481:1st Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry 13: 922:19th-century American male writers 338:He also achieved prominence as an 14: 943: 927:American male non-fiction writers 823: 750:Letters of William Lloyd Garrison 912:19th-century American historians 791:Dictionary of American Biography 747:Garrison, William Lloyd (1974). 722:Sargent, Lucius Manlius (1852). 654:Sargent, Lucius Manlius (2016). 397: 839:Works by Lucius Manlius Sargent 538:. Privately printed. p. 13 418:Mary Turner Sargent (1818–1841) 351:trade of the British in India ( 266:. 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Boston, Massachusetts
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard College
Horace
Daniel Sargent Sr.
Daniel Sargent
Henry Sargent
Paul Dudley Sargent
Judith Sargent Murray
Epes Sargent

John Singleton Copley
Boston
Daniel Sargent Sr.
The House of the Seven Gables
Gloucester
Daniel Sargent
Henry Sargent
Henry Winthrop Sargent
Judith Sargent Murray
American Revolutionary War
Paul Dudley Sargent
Epes Sargent
General Court of Massachusetts
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard
War of 1812
temperance reform
antiquarian

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