Theodore Winthrop

Theodore Winthrop ( September 22, 1828 * New Haven, Connecticut, † June 10, 1861 Battle of Big Bethel, Virginia ) was an American author and attorney.

Life

Winthrop was born in New Haven, Connecticut. About his father, he is descended from Governor John Winthrop and his mother of Jonathan Edwards. After leaving school, he studied at Yale University, where he graduated in law in 1848. He then traveled for a year in England and Europe and returned subsequently returned to the United States. He began as a writer first short skits and stories to write. In 1861 he enrolled in the 7th Regiment of the New York State Militia. He followed a call to the troops of President Abraham Lincoln. He wrote an essay titled Our March to Washington. After a short time in the military, he was appointed Major. In the battle of Big Bethel in Virginia on June 10, 1861 under the leadership of General Ebenezer W. Peirce Winthrop fell. In an attack on the right flank of the army of the Southern abolitionist Winthrop was fatally hit by a Minié basement, said to have been fired from the fencing on the part of the Confederate African American Sam Ashe.

Several novels of Winthrop, for which he himself had found a publisher during his lifetime, were not published until after his death. These include the novels John Brent, Edwin Brothertoft, Cecil Dreeme, The Canoe and the Saddle and Life in the Open Air His novel Cecil Dreeme considered as partly autobiographical and explores the homoerotic love of a man for an artist in the dandy and bohemian society New York.

Winthrop's sister, Laura Winthrop Johnson had collected his works in his collection Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop and took care of after the death of her brother to the publication of the works.