Francis Channing Barlow was a lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War.
Barlow was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Unitarian minister, but was raised in his mothers home town of Brookline, Massachusetts. He studied law at Harvard University, graduated first in his class, and was practicing law on the staff of the New York Tribune newspaper when the Civil War broke out in 1861.
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