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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Helper, Hinton Rowan 1829- (search)
Helper, Hinton Rowan 1829- Author; born in North Carolina, Dec. 27, 1829; received an academic education, and projected three railways to extend eventually from Bering Strait to the Straits of Magellan. He is the author of Impending crisis of the South (1857); The three American railways; The negroes in Negroland; The land of gold, etc.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4: College Life.—September, 1826, to September, 1830.—age, 15-19. (search)
th the study. The elective system had not then been introduced, and there was no escape from the prescribed course. He is reported by one classmate to have said that he had not cut the leaves of some of the text-books in this department. Dec. 27, 1829, he wrote to Stearns, who was then teaching at Weymouth, Browne went home and escaped the mathematical examination. That I attended. All I can say about myself is, gratia Deo, I escaped with life. His difficulty extended, of course, more orure and history, and sometimes pressed his view aggressively. Three of his letters while in college are preserved. They were written in the winter of 1829-30, to his classmate, Stearns, then teaching a school at Weymouth. The letter of Dec. 27, 1829, speaks of his purpose, in company with his classmate. Frost, to make a pedestrian trip to Weymouth. Tower remembers him as wearing in college a cloak of blue camlet lined with red, and, in a letter written soon after they left college, rec
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
July 2, 1863. Mortally wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Died at Westminster, Md., July 4, 1863. Revere, William H., Jr. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, 11th N. Y. Infantry, May 7, 1861. Resigned, June 1, 1861. Colonel, 10th Md. Infantry, July 30, 1863. Mustered out, Jan. 29, 1864. Colonel, 107th U. S. Colored Infantry, July 11, 1864. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 17, 1865. Died Sept. 20, 1865. Rice, James Clay. Born at Worthington, Mass., Dec. 27, 1829. Enlisted as private. Promoted First Lieutenant, 39th N. Y. Infantry, May 10, 1861. Captain, Aug., 1861. Lieut. Colonel, 44th N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 13, 1861. Colonel, July 4, 1862. Present at the battles of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Gaines's Mill, Malvern Hill, Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; commanded a brigade at Gettysburg; engaged in the advance on Mine Run and in the operations in the Wilderness. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Aug. 17, 1863. Killed at th