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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 1 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
cholarship, his extensive reading, his genial spirit, his playful humor, his unselfishness, his kindness, his modesty, his true manliness, his deep conscientiousness,—all this we shall never forget; and when we remember how, in the last two years of his life, his character shone out so brightly in endurance, bravery, and devotion to his country's service, we may well feel that in him we have lost a noble and heroic man. George Whittemore, Jr. Private 1st Co. Mass. Sharpshooters, August, 186; Corporal; Sergeant; killed at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. this memoir can be but a brief sketch, yet it aims to give glimpses of a character of much harmony and strength, and a career of persistent fidelity; though the one shrank from publicity, and the other was undecorated with the badges of rank. George Whittemore, Jr., son of George and Anna Whittemore, was born in Boston, December 19, 1837. He attended the public schools of that city, graduating from the Latin School,
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
) First Alabama (consolidated Sixteenth, Thirty-third and Forty-fifth), Col. Robert H. Abercrombie, April 9, 1865, Shelley's brigade, Stewart's corps, Johnston's army. No. 100—（736) In Lowrey's brigade, under Capt. J. J. Higgins, March 31, 1865. （773) Assigned to Shelley's brigade, near Smithfield, N. C., April 9, 1865. No. 104—（1134) Mentioned by Gen. P. D. Roddey, March 20, 1865. The Seventeenth Alabama infantry. The Seventeenth Alabama infantry was organized at Montgomery, August, 186. Serving first at Pensacola, it was present at the bombardment of that place October 9, 1861. The Seventeenth was distinguished in the battle of Shiloh, taking a prominent part in the capture of Prentiss' division; served at Mobile from the autumn of 1862 to March, 1864; then joined the army of Tennessee, and, under the command of Gen. E. A. O'Neal, afterward governor of Alabama, fought during Sherman's campaign from Dalton to Lovejoy's Station. It was engaged in the battles of Resa
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bor, withdrawing his troops without loss, save of a few heavy cannon, into the open country, where he can protect the advances to Richmond, and fight at a distance from the gunboats. In a word, he has completely baffled the little Napoleon, and will nor allow him to advance save at the expense of a general battle. Very slow all this for a man professing to Napoleon in his movements, and not altogether to sure at he hoped it might be. Napoleon was at Boulogne, in the latter and of August, 186 with the grand army of England, awaiting the arrival of Admiral Villanueva with a large deet to convey his to the shores of "perfidious Albion" He learned that Villanueva had been defeated and chased into Cedix by a British squadron under Admiral Calder, and that he was there closely blockaded. He saw that his grand of invasion was frustrated. For half an hour he gave way to a of rage. At the end of that time he recovered himself and instantly took his resolution. Austria and Russi