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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
r sense by Thomas Scott, a member of the first Congress, but it attracted no attention. But he had a quick, imperious and jealous temper; great vindictiveness, joined with much ingenuity in inflicting pain; an acuteness of mind which readily availed itself of all the resources of military authority, and an utter disregard of all the defences carefully thrown by wise army rules about the rights of subordinates; See striking instances of this in Butler's Campaign on the Hudson, by Rev. H N. Hudson; in Gordon's War Diary, p. 411; in Eyland's Evolution of a Life, p. 231; and in Putnam's Co. A, 25th Mass., p. 232. an impetuous recklessness of statement and a lawyer's ingenuity in special pleading. If ever a man entered military service who needed the rigid preliminary repression of discipline, he was that man; instead of which he was taken and placed very nearly at the head of the volunteer service of the country, and had under his power the life, liberty and honor of many thousand me