Nathan Appleton

Nathan Appleton (1843–1906) was an American soldier, traveler and writer, the son of the Boston merchant and congressman of the same name and half-brother of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, the poet's wife. He left Harvard in 1863 to serve as an artillery officer in the Union army, was present at Gettysburg and the campaigns in Virginia, and was brevetted captain. After the war he traveled widely, visiting Russia in 1866 and 1867 and again in 1869, and later acted as the American representative of the French Panama Canal company. His books include Harvard College During the War and Russian Life and Society as Seen in 1866–'67.