Unbeknownst to his father, the younger Longfellow had slipped away from his home in Cambridge, Mass., early in 1863 to join the Union military in Washington. He was a 2nd lieutenant in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry when injured on Nov. 27. A bullet had entered his left shoulder, traveled across his back, passing near his spine, before it exited under his right shoulder blade.
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