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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
e were so many women in the world. . . . Here I never see a white woman, save two Irish lieutenantesses. Camp Saxton, February 24 Our army does not seem to me as vivacious as many suppose, but slouchy and slovenly, ill-kept and ill-handled. In e yellow fever and then pop goes de weazel mit me: I haf no fear in battel, but de yellow fever is too much mit me. February 24 February 24, shortly before a second expedition up the St. John's River, which resulted in the capture of JacksoFebruary 24, shortly before a second expedition up the St. John's River, which resulted in the capture of Jacksonville, the diary announces the arrival of Colonel Montgomery on the scene. February 24. . . . Colonel Montgomery arrived last night, with one hundred and twenty men as the nucleus of his regiment, and he will be sent with us wherever we go, pFebruary 24. . . . Colonel Montgomery arrived last night, with one hundred and twenty men as the nucleus of his regiment, and he will be sent with us wherever we go, probably. His military experience will be of unspeakable value to me. Three years before Higginson had written of Montgomery: Montgomery in Kansas is a noble person, born and reared in Kentucky, and whatever he does I shall expect to find righ