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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1848. (search)
necessary to go over the logs to do so. I was hit three times,—first by a ball which ricochetted and bruised the calf of my right leg; next, by a ball which grazed my face just under the right side of my mouth; and again by one that grazed a shoulder-blade. The phrase of course modestly apologizes for constant activity, not only in directing his own men, but in going to and fro to encourage the whole shattered line,—services that won the commendations of his brigade commander, and of Colonel Dwight, commanding the First Excelsior, which fought gallantly side by side with the Third. And the ball which grazed his face proved to be a buckshot, that inflicted a severe wound, and remained in his jaw till his death. While the Major was thus engaged, his brother, a Second Lieutenant,—a stripling fresh from Cambridge,—escaped from the hospital, was toiling with a wounded leg after his regiment, also hotly engaged. Coming up to the scene of action, this boy gathered a couple of hundre
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1851. (search)
1851. William Dwight Sedgwick. First Lieutenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 25, 1861; Major and A. A. G. U. S. Vols., September 16, 186; died at Keedysville, Md., September 29, 1862, of a wound received at Antietam, September 17. William Dwight Sedgwick was the only son of Charles and Elizabeth (Dwight) Sedgwick, and was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, June 27, 1831. Till the age of fourteen years he was brought up almost entirely at home, when his father sent him to Illinois to spend a summer with a farmer who was a relative, and who then lived in a log-house. Here he learned and performed every kind of farm-work of which a boy of that age is capable, and confirmed a constitution originally excellent. His father believed that, without some personal knowledge and experience of labor, he could not have a proper sympathy with laboring men. He spend one year at a French school, and one in a boys' school taught by Rev. Samuel P. Parker, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1853. (search)
1853. Wilder Dwight. Major 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel, nds received at Antietam, September 17. Wilder Dwight, second son of William and Elizabeth Ameli Washington city, April 28, 1861. To Messrs. Wilder Dwight and George L. Andrews. The plan wating forces we quote the following:— Major Dwight, of the Second Massachusetts, while gallanter. Of this command of the skirmishers, Major Dwight's journal contains the following:— Atire. Colonel Andrews writes:— Lieutenant-Colonel Dwight was mortally wounded within three fe. The Rebels saw them, and began firing. Colonel Dwight wanted us to go back to the regiment. Saim, yielded to the grief which overwhelmed him. Dwight threw his arm around his friend's neck, and, dto ask where the rest of the regiment was. Colonel Dwight called out: Who asked for the Second Regimfolk bar upon the occasion of the death of Wilder Dwight, closes with the following words:— T[3 more.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
; but Mr. Savage was calm and quiet, and seemed the least affected of any, yet he was the first to apply for a commission. In conjunction with his friends, Wilder Dwight (who after wards fell at the battle of Antietam) and Greeley S. Curtis (eventually Colonel of the First Massachusetts Cavalry), a plan was formed to organize awo graduates of West Point, Messrs. Gordon and Andrews, who had formerly resigned their commissions in the army, were induced to take the highest appointments. Mr. Dwight undertook to get permission to raise the regiment as well as to secure funds for arming and equipping the men; while Curtis and Savage were to carry forward the organization and recruiting. Their efforts resulted in the formation of the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, in which Dwight was commissioned as Major, and Curtis and Savage were Captains. It will be admitted by all that this regiment has been unsurpassed for discipline, for efficiency, and probably for its fearful
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
re in demand. This autumn they will bear fruit. The wheel is entitled to every man's shoulder; offer yours. In other words, pack your trunk, take a few letters of introduction and authentication from the Governor and others, go to Fremont, tell him you wish to serve in his army . . . . You will do yourself credit, and be in the midst of some of the most brilliant achievements of the war. I have said my say after reflection, and from a near view of the field. Yours affectionately, Wilder Dwight. To Lieutenant Howard Dwight. He returned home without delay, being induced to follow the advice of his brother by the fact that he had been a citizen of Tennessee for two years previous to the breaking out of the Rebellion; and where he had faced Secession he chose to fight it. The second day after his return from Northfield he had furnished himself with the necessary letters, had taken leave of his chosen friends and companions of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, from whom it was har
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
re of the time when he should be able to resume his place in the field, and of his friends who remained in the service. If the Secretary keeps his promise, I shall at once be restored. . . . . I am perfectly determined that, as soon as my leg is well, I shall prefer the army very much to any other profession, as long as the war lasts. After Gettysburg:— We certainly have paid very dear for our success. Boston, as usual, has her fair share to mourn. However, as I remember Wilder Dwight quoting the night before Antietam, apropos to the same subject, Men must work and women must weep ; there's an end of it. In August, 1863, he returned home, improved in walking, and quite able to ride. Soon after, he was offered the position of Adjutant of the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, then organizing. He accepted the place, and, in spite of lameness and much suffering, was able to show himself in camp at Readville, through the winter of 1863-64, the thorough soldier
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
for the morrow, at any rate. As soon as the siege is over, I will write you again. There was not another general assault till June 14th; but meanwhile there was a great deal of hard and dangerous duty to be performed in the digging of rifle-pits and establishing an advanced line of pickets. In all this work and peril Lieutenant Haven sustained his part with unabated energy. On the 13th of June a demonstration preparatory to the attack on the morrow was made under the direction of General Dwight. While this was in progress Lieutenant Haven applied to the surgeon of the regiment on account of painful and annoying symptoms of throat disease. The surgeon forbade his participation in the contemplated assault, and advised him immediately to go into the hospital. An ambulance was in readiness for Baton Rouge, and he was carried at once to the hospital at that place. His ailment proved to be diphtheria. The symptoms do not appear to have been alarming at the outset,—certainly they
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Appendix. (search)
ate Distribution. 1864. 8vo. pp. 31. Boynton (H. U. 1863). Memorial Services. A Sermon preached in the Bowdoin Square Church, Sunday, Dec. 25, 1864, by the Pastor, on the Death of Capt. Winthrop Perkins Boynton, Co. D, 55th Mass. Regiment, who fell at the battle of Honey Hill, November 30, 1864. He being dead yet speaketh. Boston: J. M. Hewes, Printer, 65 Cornhill. 1865. 8vo. pp. 16. Dwight, W. (H. U. 1853). Proceedings of the Suffolk Bar upon the Occasion of the Death of Wilder Dwight, with the Reply of the Court. Obiit 19 September, 1865, Aet. 30. Riverside Press. 8vo. pp. 30. Fuller (H. U. 1843). Chaplain Fuller: Being a Life Sketch of a New England Clergyman and Army Chaplain. By Richard F. Fuller. I must do something for my country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 245 Washington Street. 1864. 12mo. pp. 342. Goodwin (H. U. 1854). The Recompense, a Sermon for Country and Kindred, delivered in the West Churc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
. 68; II. 328, 354;. Dustin, Hannah, II. 230. Dwight, Charles, Lieut., I. 367, 368;. Dwight, Edmund, Dwight, Edmund, II. 133. Dwight, Elizabeth A., 1. 252, 358. Dwight, Howard, Capt., Memoir, 1. 358-369. Dwight, John, Dwight, Elizabeth A., 1. 252, 358. Dwight, Howard, Capt., Memoir, 1. 358-369. Dwight, John, I. 252. Dwight, S., II. 374. Dwight, Wilder, Major, Memoir, I. 252-272. Also, I. 363, 364;, 365; II. 24Dwight, Howard, Capt., Memoir, 1. 358-369. Dwight, John, I. 252. Dwight, S., II. 374. Dwight, Wilder, Major, Memoir, I. 252-272. Also, I. 363, 364;, 365; II. 24, 136;. Dwight, William, I. 252, 358;. Dwight, William, Jr., Brig.-Gen., I. 143,366 II. 282, 398;, 399, Dwight, John, I. 252. Dwight, S., II. 374. Dwight, Wilder, Major, Memoir, I. 252-272. Also, I. 363, 364;, 365; II. 24, 136;. Dwight, William, I. 252, 358;. Dwight, William, Jr., Brig.-Gen., I. 143,366 II. 282, 398;, 399, 404. E. Eells, J. H., Rev., I. 389. Eells, Maria A., I. 389. Eells, S. H., Asst.-Surg., Memoir, I.Dwight, S., II. 374. Dwight, Wilder, Major, Memoir, I. 252-272. Also, I. 363, 364;, 365; II. 24, 136;. Dwight, William, I. 252, 358;. Dwight, William, Jr., Brig.-Gen., I. 143,366 II. 282, 398;, 399, 404. E. Eells, J. H., Rev., I. 389. Eells, Maria A., I. 389. Eells, S. H., Asst.-Surg., Memoir, I. 389-394. Eliot, Samuel, I. 409. Eliot, W. G., Rev. Dr., I. 418. Ellis, Rufus, Rev., I. 151. EllswDwight, Wilder, Major, Memoir, I. 252-272. Also, I. 363, 364;, 365; II. 24, 136;. Dwight, William, I. 252, 358;. Dwight, William, Jr., Brig.-Gen., I. 143,366 II. 282, 398;, 399, 404. E. Eells, J. H., Rev., I. 389. Eells, Maria A., I. 389. Eells, S. H., Asst.-Surg., Memoir, I. 389-394. Eliot, Samuel, I. 409. Eliot, W. G., Rev. Dr., I. 418. Ellis, Rufus, Rev., I. 151. Ellsworth, E. E., Col., I. 328. Emerson, G. B., I. 24. Emerson, George S., I. 96. Emerson, John, Capt., IIDwight, William, I. 252, 358;. Dwight, William, Jr., Brig.-Gen., I. 143,366 II. 282, 398;, 399, 404. E. Eells, J. H., Rev., I. 389. Eells, Maria A., I. 389. Eells, S. H., Asst.-Surg., Memoir, I. 389-394. Eliot, Samuel, I. 409. Eliot, W. G., Rev. Dr., I. 418. Ellis, Rufus, Rev., I. 151. Ellsworth, E. E., Col., I. 328. Emerson, G. B., I. 24. Emerson, George S., I. 96. Emerson, John, Capt., II. 229, 230;. Emerson, Jonathan, II. 230. Emerson, N. F., II. 229. Emerson, R. W., I. 57, 86;, 99, 282Dwight, William, Jr., Brig.-Gen., I. 143,366 II. 282, 398;, 399, 404. E. Eells, J. H., Rev., I. 389. Eells, Maria A., I. 389. Eells, S. H., Asst.-Surg., Memoir, I. 389-394. Eliot, Samuel, I. 409. Eliot, W. G., Rev. Dr., I. 418. Ellis, Rufus, Rev., I. 151. Ellsworth, E. E., Col., I. 328. Emerson, G. B., I. 24. Emerson, George S., I. 96. Emerson, John, Capt., II. 229, 230;. Emerson, Jonathan, II. 230. Emerson, N. F., II. 229. Emerson, R. W., I. 57, 86;, 99, 282, 353. Emerson, S., II. 230. Emerson, S. G., Memoir, II. 229-233. Emory, W. H., Maj.-Gen., I. 64, 67;