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He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. Winthrop was born in New Haven, Connecticut.

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He was descended through his father from Governor John Winthrop and through his mother from Jonathan Edwards. After contributing to periodicals, short sketches, and stories, which attracted little attention, Winthrop enlisted in the 7th Regiment, New York State Militia, an early volunteer unit of the Federal Army that answered President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops in He wrote a popular essay about the experience titled "Our March to Washington.

Peirce's staff and drew up a crude plan of battle. After a Federal attack to the enemy right flank was foiled, Winthrop led an ill-fated assault on the Confederate left held by four companies of the 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry, under the command of Colonel later Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill. In the heat of battle, Major Winthrop leapt onto the trunk of a fallen tree and reportedly yelled, "One more charge boys, and the day is ours.

Ironically, ardent abolitionist Winthrop may have been shot by the African-American slave of a Confederate officer in the 1st North Carolina Infantry. Three different soldiers, as well as this slave, referred to in the records only as "Sam," claimed to have killed him. In Collection Product Details. Personal Details.