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John Lockwood

1825–1901

A 19th-century American writer remembered for both reflective poetry and a firsthand Civil War memoir, his work moves between private feeling and public memory.

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Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863

Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863

by John Lockwood

About the author

John Lockwood (1825 or 1826–1901) was an American author whose surviving books show a wide range of interests. Catalog and archive records link him to poetry collections including The Silent Dormitory and Other Poems (1887) and The River: A Song of Human Life (1890), as well as the historical memoir Our Campaign Around Gettysburg, about the Twenty-third Regiment and its service during the 1863 campaign.

That mix of subjects gives his writing a distinctive feel: part personal, part commemorative. His poems suggest a reflective, literary side, while his Gettysburg volume points to a close connection with the lived experience of the Civil War and to a desire to preserve those memories in print.

Reliable biographical detail about his life appears to be limited in the sources available here, so a full personal portrait is hard to confirm. What can be said with confidence is that his work places him among the many 19th-century writers who used books both to express private thought and to record the events their generation had witnessed.