James Jackson Lowell (a younger brother of Gen. Charles R. Lowell) graduated at Harvard College in 1858. In 1860 he entered the Cambridge Law School, but before completing his studies the Civil War began. On July 10, 1861, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company E, Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into national service on August 8, 1861. He was wounded (shot in his thigh) in the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, October 21, 1861, and his cousin, William Lowell Putnam, was serving in the same company and was mortally wounded. Lowell returned to Cambridge to recuperate and returned to the front in February 1862. He served in the Peninsula Campaign and was mortally wounded (shot in his abdomen) at Glendale, Virginia, on June 30, 1862. He was brought to a farmhouse, which was being used as a field hospital, and two Federal surgeons remained there when the Confederates took control. Lowell lingered there for four days, then died. He was buried under a tree at Nelson's or Frazier's Farm and three years later his sister, who was a volunteer nurse, found his grave and had his remains transported to Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sources: HARVARD MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHIES (1866), 1: 422-36; MASS. SOLDIERS... 2: 537.

James Jackson Lowell (a younger brother of Gen. Charles R. Lowell) graduated at Harvard College in 1858. In 1860 he entered the Cambridge Law School, but before completing his studies the Civil War began. On July 10, 1861, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company E, Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into national service on August 8, 1861. He was wounded (shot in his thigh) in the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, October 21, 1861, and his cousin, William Lowell Putnam, was serving in the same company and was mortally wounded. Lowell returned to Cambridge to recuperate and returned to the front in February 1862. He served in the Peninsula Campaign and was mortally wounded (shot in his abdomen) at Glendale, Virginia, on June 30, 1862. He was brought to a farmhouse, which was being used as a field hospital, and two Federal surgeons remained there when the Confederates took control. Lowell lingered there for four days, then died. He was buried under a tree at Nelson's or Frazier's Farm and three years later his sister, who was a volunteer nurse, found his grave and had his remains transported to Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sources: HARVARD MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHIES (1866), 1: 422-36; MASS. SOLDIERS... 2: 537.