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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
lt dwindled to shameful defeat. Sidney Willard's decision was made, and with the same quietness with which he had suppressed all suggestion of desire to take part in the war, when that desire could not be followed by performance, he now announced his purpose, and immediately set about its execution. In three days after his application for a commission, he had raised the requisite number of men, and was appointed Captain in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, then in process of formation, on the 13th of August. On the 21st, the day before his departure for the war, he was married to Miss Sarah R. Fiske, daughter of Augustus H. Fiske, Esq., an eminent lawyer, at the latter's country residence in Weston. On the 22d of August the regiment left for the war. There was no more noticeable man in its ranks than Captain Willard, marching with stately figure through the eager, crowded streets, to enter upon a mode of life that had little in it to attract him, his face sobered by the duty which separ
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
t's sleep, notwithstanding the weather; took a bath and washed my shirt and drawers, the only ones I have. Pants well worn. Sent a letter home. Another man shot near the dead-line. August 9.—About noon rained very hard, washed down part of the stockade, and wet us all. No rations. August 10.—Drew half rations bread and boiled beans. Could not eat the beans. Rained hard; in the afternoon drew some boiled beef with no bread. August 11 .—Drew beans, bread, and beef. August 13.—A very hot day. A great many have died within a few days. Fresh beef, beans, and corn-bread. August 15. —The fever is abating which has for a few days prevailed in the camp on the subject of exchange. I dread the idea of a winter campaign in this hole. Not so many deaths for the last two or three days. One has no idea of the sights in this place. Horrible! Men ought not to be kept in this state on any conditions. August 16.—Fine morning; had a fair night's sleep, but sw
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
induce young men to enlist? He wrote in his journal at this time:— It is not congenial to my tastes to go to war, but it seems now as though all who love their country ought to be willing to take up arms in its defence. . . . . I hope I shall be faithful in the performance of my duty when on the battle-field. On the 31st of July, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company F of the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, and was mustered into the United States service on the 13th of August following, passing his time, meanwhile, in hurried farewell visits to friends in Maine and New Hampshire. On reporting at Camp Cameron, being then disabled by a painful sore upon his right hand, he received a furlough, which was afterwards extended till the departure of the regiment; and he was thus enabled to take part in the many war meetings in Cambridge and vicinity, and his stirring appeals were eloquent, because heartfelt. When the regiment reached Camp Belger, near Baltimore,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
ervice and under the pay of Uncle Sam, as a private in Company H, Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment. After bidding good by to the dear ones at home, Ira Parkis, Henry Ainsworth, and I came up to. Worcester and were sworn into the service of the United States. In this same company were three cousins of Chapin's, from Whitinsville,—Samuel, James, and George Fletcher, three brothers, who are several times mentioned in this sketch in the extracts from Chapin's diary and letters. On the 13th of August the recruits left Camp Cameron in Cambridge, to join their respective regiments in the field. On the 14th they arrived in New York, and on the 15th were embarked on board the steamship Catawba for Fortress Monroe, where they arrived next day. Here the news came that McClellan had evacuated Harrison's Landing. Accordingly the recruits remained at Camp Hamilton, near the fort, till the 24th, when they marched to Newport News, where the recruits for the Fifteenth joined that regiment,