William Batchelder Greene

Biographical Materials

I'm currently in the midst of writing a biography of William Batchelder Greene. Here you'll find notes, summaries and timelines, as they develop, but also a collection of anecdotes and recollections of this fascinating figure.

Relatives, Friends and Associates of the William B. Greene Family

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES:

• "Annual Visitation of the Cambridge Divinity School." The Monthly Religious Magazine, 2, 8 (August, 1845), 286.
• Cameron, Kenneth Walter. "Emerson and William Batchelder Greene's Creativity and Questing." American Literary Renaissance Report, X (1996), 3-83.
• Carter, Robert G. Four Brothers in Blue: Or Sunshine and Shadows in the War of the Rebellion; A Story of the Great Civil War from Bull Run to Appomattox. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1978. [John H. Carter letters]
• Clarke, James Freeman. Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1891, 278-282.
• Coffin, Charles Carleton. "Memoir of Nathaniel Greene." The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (Oct 1878): 373-378.
• Cooke, George Willis. An Historical and Biographical Introduction to Accompany the Dial. 2: 117-128.
• Essex County Regiment: a Directory of the Comissioned and Non-Comissioned Officers and Privates, of each company, attached to the Fourteenth Regiment Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Wm. B. Green, commanding, stationed at the forts near Washington. Lawrence, MA: G. S. Merrill, Printer. [32 pages]
• "Fact and Rumor." Christian Union. 33, 22 (Jun 3, 1886): 24. [attributed to Worcester Spy]
• Fields, Annie. Authors and Friends. [excerpt]
• "Forts Runyon and Albany." Harper's Weekly, November 30, 1861. 759, 767. [illustrations of forts]
• "Greene, William Batchelder." National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 9[?], 526-527.
• "Greene, William Batchelder." Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. Wesley T. Mott, ed. Greenwood, 1996. 121-122.
• Grozins, Dean. American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism." Chapel Hill: University of NC Press, 2002.
• Gura, Philip F. "Beyond Transcendentalism: The Radical Individualism of William B. Greene." Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts. Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright, eds. Boston: Mass. Historical Society, 1999, 471-496.
• Hecker, I[ ] T. "Dr. Brownson in Boston." Catholic World, 46, 268 (July 1887): 468-468.
• ---. "Dr. Brownson's Road to the Church." Catholic World, 46, 271 (October 1887): 1-2.
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Cheerful Yesterdays (Boston & New York, 1898), 106, 175. [excerpts]
• "Intelligence - Installation at Hubbardston, Mass." The Monthly Religious Magazine, 3, 3 (Mar, 1846): 141.
• "Intelligence - Installation at Scituate, Mass. The Monthly Religious Magazine, 5, 7 (July, 1848), 334.
• "Intelligence - Ordination at Brookfield, Mass." The Monthly Religious Magazine, 2, 12 (Dec, 1845), 432.
• "Intelligence - Ordination at Brookfield, Mass." The Monthly Religious Magazine, 5, 5 (May, 1848), 239.
• "Intelligence - Ordination at Worcester, Mass." The Monthly Religious Magazine, 5, 11 (Nov, 1848), 525.
• "Intelligence - Religious Intelligence." Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, 45, 1 (July, 1848), 156.
[installation at Scituate, MA]
• Lause, Mark A. "Turning the World Upside Down: A Portrait of Labor and Military Leader, Alonzo Granville Draper." Labor History, 44, 2. 189-204.
• Littlefield, R[oger] S. "Reminiscences of Colonel Greene." Liberty, 9, 17 (Dec. 24, 1892), 1-3. [reprinted from "National Tribune.]
• "Ministerial Conference." The Monthly Religious Magazine, 5, 6 (June,1848), 286-288.
• "Notice of Recent Publications." Christian, 46, 3 (May 1849): 516-517
• "Obituary." New York Times, Jun 3, 1878: 5.
• Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention, Assembled May 4, 1853, to Revise and Amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: White & Potter, 1853.
• Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D. D. Boston: Roberts Brother, 1880. 364-365, 435-445. [excerpts]
• Record of Andover During the Rebellion
• Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868.
• Roe, Alfred S. History of the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, Formerly the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, 1861-1865. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1910.
• Stearns, Frank Preston. Sketches from Concord and Appledore. [excerpt]
• Stillman, James. Autobiography of a Journalist. [excerpt]
• Washburn, Andrew. Documents in the Case of Major Andrew Washburn, Late of the Fourteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, Heavy Artillery.
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• Codman, John T. BROOK FARM: HISTORIC AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS
• Commons, HISTORY OF LABOUR, II, 138, 142
• Brown, John H., ed., LAMB'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED STATES (Boston, 1900), III, 399.

CORRESPONDENCE CITED IN SOURCES:

• [listing in preparation]
  

Works in progress:

• A Regular Thoroughgoing Heretic: Key Incidents and Influences in the Life of William Batchelder Greene
• A Special Answer to a Special Prayer: William B. Greene, American Mutualist
• The Blazing Star Library (reprinting works by, and relating to, William B. Greene and American mutualism)