Novelist, essayist, historian; his essay "The Great American Novel" originated that term.
In the Civil War, he was captain of a company from New Haven in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers, adjutant general of the Veteran Reserve Corps, later serving in the Freedmen's Bureau during the reconstruction in Greenville, South Carolina.
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