Colonel Norwood Penrose Hallowell (USA)

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Norwood Penrose "Pen" Hallowell (April 13, 1839 – April 11, 1914) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. One of three brothers to serve with distinction during the war, he and his brother Edward Needles Hallowell both became commanders of the first all-black regiments. He is also remembered for his close friendship with and influence upon future Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who was his classmate at Harvard and his comrade during the war.

Norwood P. Hallowell studied two years at Haverford College, and in 1857 entered Harvard University. Near the close of his college course the war of the Rebellion broke out, and he enlisted April 25, 1861, in the Fourth Battalion, N. E. Guards, Infantry, stationed at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor. He passed the closing examination with the class, and on Class Day delivered the Oration. June 10, 1861, commissioned First Lieutenant Company H, Twentieth Massachusetts. Left camp of instruction at Readville, Mass., with regiment, Sept. 4. Was engaged in the battle of Ball's Bluff, Oct. 21. Commissioned Captain Company D, Nov. 26. Engaged at the siege of Yorktown, under hre at West Point, in action at Fair Oaks and at Savage's Station, and was wounded slightly in the side at Glendale. Was present at the battle of Malvern Hill, and subsequently took part in a reconnaissance from Harrison's Landing to that place. Was in the third line of battle at Chantilly, and at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, was severely wounded in the left arm, and continued an invalid during the winter of 1862-63. April 17, 1863, commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel Fifty-fourth Massachusetts ; and on May 30, at the request of Governor Andrew, he accepted the Colonelcy of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, — the second Massachusetts colored regiment. July 25, arrived in New-Berne, N". C, direct from camp at Readville, Mass. "Was ordered to proceed with regiment to South Carolina, and on Aug. 5 engaged on north end of Folly Island, Charleston Harbor. Regiment was engaged in the siege of Fort Wagner, and was among the first to enter it on the morning after its evacuation. Colonel Hallowell tendered his resignation in consequence of health impaired by wounds received at Antietam, and was honorably discharged Nov. 2, 1863.

Colonel Hallowell took up his residence in Medford, Mass., in 1869. He was made President of the National Bank of Commerce of Boston, Jan. 23, 1891, which position he now holds.