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Twichell was born on November 30, 1838 in Southington, Connecticut, to Edward Twichell and Selina Delight Carter.
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In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp. As a noncombatant, he at once observed and participated in the momentous events of the Peninsula and Wilderness Campaigns and at the Second Bull Run, as well as at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. Twichell writes about politics and slavery and the theological and cultural divide between him and his men. Most movingly, he tells of tending the helpless, burying the dead, and counseling the despondent. Alongside accounts of a run-in with slave hunters, a massive withdrawal of wounded soldiers from Richmond, and other extraordinary events, Twichell offers close-up views of his commanding officer, the "political general" Daniel Sickles, surely one of the most colorful and controversial leaders on either side. Civil War scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this fresh voice from an underrepresented class of soldier, the army chaplain. Readers who know of Twichell's later life as a prominent minister and reformer or as Mark Twain's closest friend will appreciate these insights into his early, transforming experiences.
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Twichell was born on November 30, 1838 in Southington, Connecticut, to Edward Twichell and Selina Delight Carter.
He studied at Yale from 1855–1859. He rowed on the Yale crew the first time the Yale defeated Harvard.
From 1859–61, Twichell attended Union Theological Seminary, New York.
He entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1865.
From 1861 to 1864 he saw active service as chaplain of the 716t New York Volunteers, in the meantime, Jan. 30, 1863, being ordained in his native town.
In 1865, recommended to the Asylum Hill Church by Horace Bushnell, he began his Hartford pastorate.
For thirty-nine years (1874 - 1913) he was an active member of the Board of Fellows of Yale University.
During his half century in Hartford he exerted much influence in the religious and civic affairs of his city and state.
His influence was exerted not only directly, but indirectly through his close association with newspaper editors, writers, and public officials, who held him in high esteem. He was so often introduced into Charles Dudley Warner's conversation "that many persons felt they had a certain acquaintance and wished they knew him better".
Upon taking up his residence in Hartford, he at once became a member of the circle that included Warner, Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and other notable people. When Samuel L. Clemens came to the city in 1868 to supervise the publication of a book, he met Twichell and a most intimate friendship began.
Twichell was one of the officiating clergymen at Clemens' wedding in Elmira; later the two were neighbors in Hartford; they tramped together, and traveled together. They were companions on the trip described in A Tramp Abroad, in which Twichell figures as "Harris" , and it was Twichell who made the suggestion that prompted the writing of the sketches which formed the basis of Life on the Mississippi. In his description of the pastor's appearance in the pulpit with "green hair, " the humorist affectionately immortalized his friend in a most amusing skit (Mark Twain's Autobiography, post, I, 342-43). They stood together, in a Republican stronghold, in support of Cleveland rather than Blaine for the presidency, a stand which almost cost Twichell his pastorate. When apart, the two corresponded at length, their letters disclosing that there was no one to whom Clemens revealed his soul more fully than to Twichell.
The latter's own literary output was not great. He made contributions to periodicals, among them "Mark Twain" (Harper's Monthly, May 1896), and "Qualities of Warner's Humor" (The Century, January 1903); and he published two more substantial works, John Winthrop (copr. 1891), in the Makers of America Series, and Some Old Puritan Love-Letters (1893), being the correspondence of John and Margaret Winthrop.
Joseph Twichell died on December 20, 1918 in Hartford.
Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell was Mark Twain's closest friend for over forty years, and appears in A Tramp Abroad as "Harris". Twain and Twichell met at a church social after the Civil War when Twichell was pastor of Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, his only pastorate for almost 50 years. Reverend Twichell performed Twain's wedding and christened his children, and counseled him on literary as well as personal matters for the rest of his life. He is also remembered for his own writings Some Old Puritan Love Letters (1893) and John Winthrop (1891).
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Quotations: In a letter to his father, he remarked: "If you ask why I fixed upon this regiment, composed as it is of rough, wicked men, I answer, that was the very reason. I should not expect a revival, but I should expect to make some good impressions by treating with kindness a class of men who are little used to it. "
He was handsome, athletic, abounding in good humor, and had a sympathetic understanding of all sorts and conditions of men, derived in part from his army experiences. His humanness is indicated by the fact that he was invariably alluded to as "Joe" Twichell.
Although not a scholar in the academic use of the term, he had a well stocked and well disciplined mind, keen discernment, sound judgment, and a fine literary taste.
Twichell was described as "a man with an exuberant sense of humor, and a profound understanding of the frailties of mankind. "
Twichell married Julia Harmony Cushman in November 1865. Together, they had eleven children.
Their son Burton Parker Twichell married Katherine Eugenia Pratt, daughter of Charles Millard Pratt.
Their daughter Harmony Twichell (1876–1969) married the composer Charles Ives in 1908.
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) He is better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
