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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
on the extreme right of all. This was his last letter. The last evening of his life was spent in entertaining these officers. The rest must be told in the words of others. The two letters which follow are from his cousin, Captain Rodman of the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts, and from Adjutant Loring of the same regiment. before Port Hudson, June 7, 1863. my dear uncle,—I wrote you and Aunt S. a few lines on the 28th ultimo, giving you the particulars of William's death on the 27th. I think it best now to give such a connected account of matters that you may know the whole. On the 22d of May we landed at Bayou Sara and marched towards Port Hudson. On the 23d we encamped in an old cornfield about three miles from the fortifications. On the 25th we encamped at a bayou, where we met the Rebel pickets, and had two men killed and one wounded,—none of them my men. On the morning of the 27th we marched to the left, through the woods, into the open space about the works
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
the Rebel general moved in force against the Union right, which he succeeded in turning. A result of his success was to cut off McClellan's base of supplies at the White House, forcing him to fall back on James River. On the 29th, at an early hour, the Second Corps, which, with the Third and a division of the Sixth, constituted the rear-guard in this memorable movement, silently marched out of their intrenched camp at or near Fair Oaks. Major Revere had been detached during the night of the 27th, in command of a small battalion of the Twentieth, on special duty connected with the Ordnance Department, and was absent from his regiment when the retrograde movement of the Second Corps commenced. Sedgwick's division was halted, and fronted the enemy in line of battle at Peach Orchard, a mile or more from Fair Oaks, where it had a sharp skirmish, checking the Rebel advance. Again in the afternoon at Savage Station, where Major Revere rejoined his regiment, the division was sent into ac
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1853. (search)
under which it could be carried into operation. It was necessary to obtain from the Secretary of War special authority for the enlistment and control of the proposed regiment. For this purpose, on the 25th of April, 1861, while the excitement which followed the Baltimore riot was at its height, and the usual communication with the seat of government was cut off, Mr. Dwight and Mr. Andrews left Boston, and went by the way of Annapolis to Washington. They reached there on the evening of the 27th, at which time he wrote to his father a brief account of this eventful journey through hostile country, saying that he was to have an interview with the Secretary of War that evening. After submitting his plan to the Secretary in conversation, he addressed to him a written statement of the same. On the next day the following letter was received from the War Department:— Washington city, April 28, 1861. To Messrs. Wilder Dwight and George L. Andrews. The plan which you commun
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
rd yesterday of a narrow escape which Charley had, writes Lieutenant James Lowell, on the 29th of May, referring to the affair at Slatersville. He was charging, and came upon a man who aimed a double-barrelled carbine at him. C——called out to him, Drop that! and he lowered it enough to blow to pieces C——'s coat, which was strapped on his horse behind him. Captain Lowell further distinguished himself in a reconnoissance on the 15th of May, and in the battle of Hanover Court- House on the 27th. On the memorable 27th of June the whole of Stoneman's command was cut off from the main army and obliged to retire down the Peninsula to Fortress Monroe. In the severe battles of the following week Lowell was therefore not engaged. But they cost him the life of his tenderly loved brother, James, who was wounded at Glendale on the 30th of June, and died in the hands of the enemy at a neighboring farm-house on the 4th of July. On the 10th of July Captain Lowell was detailed for duty as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
thout that precious antidote,—so precious when away from home,—a brother's watchful care. They parted, to meet no more on earth; the one, on his way to the hospital and to the grave; the other, marching on to the battle-field. The Army of the Gulf, having driven the Rebels out of sight, left Alexandria, and arrived in the rear of Port Hudson on the 23d of May, 1863, and after a skirmish on the 25th, in which the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts was engaged, a general assault was ordered on the 27th. On the morning of the 27th the Thirty-eighth was ordered to support Duryea's battery, which was in position on the edge of the woods in front of the Rebel works. In a short time after the troops were thrown forward, the skirmishers, having worked their way up to the ditch, were seen running up the embankment, and the fire from the enemy had almost ceased. In the words of an eyewitness:— It was generally believed that the outer line of works had been abandoned, and the regiment, issu<