Editing Nathaniel Hawthorne (section)

===Later years and death===
[[File:NHawthorneGrave.jpg|thumb|right|Grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

At the outset of the [[American Civil War]], Hawthorne traveled with [[William D. Ticknor]] to Washington, D.C., where he met [[Abraham Lincoln]] and other notable figures. He wrote about his experiences in the essay "[[Chiefly About War Matters]]" in 1862.

Failing health prevented him from completing several more romance novels. Hawthorne was suffering from pain in his stomach and insisted on a recuperative trip with his friend Franklin Pierce, though his neighbor Bronson Alcott was concerned that Hawthorne was too ill.<ref>Wineapple, 372</ref> While on a tour of the [[White Mountains (New Hampshire)|White Mountains]], he died in his sleep on May 19, 1864, in [[Plymouth, New Hampshire]]. Pierce sent a [[telegram]] to [[Elizabeth Peabody]] asking her to inform Mrs. Hawthorne in person. Mrs. Hawthorne was too saddened by the news to handle the funeral arrangements herself.<ref>Miller, 518</ref> Hawthorne's son Julian, a freshman at [[Harvard College]], learned of his father's death the next day; coincidentally, he was initiated into the [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity on the same day by being blindfolded and placed in a coffin.<ref>{{cite web| title= Nathaniel Hawthorne's Untold Tale | url= http://chronicle.com/article/Nathaniel-Hawthornes-Untold/123889 | first= Jack | last=Matthews | date= August 15, 2010 | work= [[The Chronicle of Higher Education|The Chronicle Review]] | access-date=2010-08-17}}</ref> Longfellow wrote a tribute poem to Hawthorne published in 1866 called "[[s:The Bells of Lynn|The Bells of Lynn]]".<ref>Wagenknecht, Edward. ''Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 9.</ref> Hawthorne was buried on what is now known as "Authors' Ridge" in [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 20433–20434). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Pallbearers included Longfellow, Emerson, Alcott, [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], [[James T. Fields]], and [[Edwin Percy Whipple]].<ref>Baker, Carlos. ''Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait''. New York: Viking Press, 1996: 448. {{ISBN|067086675X}}.</ref> Emerson wrote of the funeral: "I thought there was a tragic element in the event, that might be more fully rendered—in the painful solitude of the man, which, I suppose, could no longer be endured, & he died of it."<ref>McFarland, 297</ref>

His wife Sophia and daughter Una were originally buried in England. However, in June 2006, they were reinterred in plots adjacent to Hawthorne.<ref>Mishra, Raja and Sally Heaney. "[http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/01/hawthornes_to_be_reunited/ Hawthornes to be reunited]", ''The Boston Globe''. June 1, 2006. Accessed July 4, 2008</ref>