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Then in 1863, during the American Civil War, Longfellow's oldest son, Charles Appleton Longfellow, joined the Union Army without his father's blessing. Longfellow was informed by a letter dated March 14, 1863, after Charles had left. "I have tried hard to resist the temptation of going without your leave but I cannot any longer", he wrote.
Fanny Appleton Longfellow, with sons Charles and Ernest, circa 1849 The small collection Poems on Slavery was published in 1842 as Longfellow's first public support of abolitionism. However, as Longfellow himself wrote, the poems were "so mild that even a Slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast". [ 59 ]
Frances "Fanny" Elizabeth Appleton (1819–1861) ∞ 1843: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844–1893) Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) ∞ 1868: Harriet "Hattie" Spelman; Fanny Longfellow (1847–1848) Alice Mary Longfellow (1850–1928) Edith Longfellow (1853–1915) ∞ Richard Henry Dana III ...
Thomas Gold Appleton (March 31, 1812 – April 17, 1884), son of merchant Nathan Appleton and Maria Theresa Gold, was an American writer, an artist, and a patron of the fine arts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became his brother-in-law after marrying Appleton's sister Frances.
Henry "Harry" Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), [13] who became a gay liberationist, previously acquitted of a 1935 morals arrest. [14] Frances Appleton Dana (1883–1933), [15] who married Henry Casimir de Rham, a grandson of Charles de Rham, in 1905. She befriended Franklin Roosevelt but died in 1933 of suicide. [16]
After receiving the letter, Longfellow was too restless to take a carriage and instead walked 90 minutes to her house. [15] They were married shortly thereafter. Nathan Appleton bought the former Craigie House as a wedding present to the pair and Longfellow lived there for the rest of his life. [16]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells", which became the carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day", in response to learning of his son Charles Appleton Longfellow being severely wounded in the battle.
Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Henry Casimir de Rham (1882–1947) (who married Frances Appleton Dana, a daughter of Richard Henry Dana III and granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); [20] [21] Frederic Foster de Rham (1883–1938); [22] Laura de Rham (1887–1906); [23] Charles de Rham (1888–1918) (who married Jeanne ...