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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
ctual service the poorest — make most mistakes and are most negligent; reason, because they rely on their own impressions and limited experience, while the new men anxiously make sure of the Regulations or the Tactics or the colonel for everything. The best of them discover, with me, how annoying it is to be scrupulous and punctilious where others take it easy. Still, the stricter officers command most weight in the end. .The two captains who satisfy me are Wheeler of Grafton and . . . Kimball of Oxford--... the latter a very handsome young medical student, the former a noble-looking six-foot Saxon, sound and simple-hearted in his manhood, one of Tom Hughes's type of men; son of a rich machinist here in Worcester, himself a Harvard graduate, who after travelling in Europe settled down as a farmer in Grafton, with a private school like Miles's; he is the man among them all who will do to tie to, as they say out West. My lieutenants are the best of the lot and all is harmony among
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32. Hunter, Gen., David, described, 198; and Jefferson Davis, 205. Hurlbut, William Henry, his:foreign experiences, 29-33. J Jacksonville, Fla., 185-91, 194-97. Johnson, Robert U., 235. Johnson, Samuel, letters to, 14-17, 51. Jowett, Master, of Balliol, visit to, 286. K Kane, Dr. Elisha K., Arctic explorer, 90-92. Kansas, emigrants and money sent to, 137-39; Higginson's trip to, 139-44. Kemble, Mrs., Fanny, 35-37, 218. Kensett, John F., the artist, 147. Kimball, Capt., 177. King, Clarence, 274. Koven, Rev. Henry de, 261. L La Farge, John, the artist, 226, 227. Lander, Mrs. F. W., 205, 206; sketch of, 201, 202. Lane, Gen. James H., of Kansas, 143, 144. Lazarus, Emma, 266. Lewis, Dio, 249. Lincoln, Abraham, 164; and Fremont, 160; anecdote of, 202; death, 236. Lincoln, Mrs., Abraham, 165; described, 164; about the President's death, 236. Lind, Jenny, marriage of, 39, 40. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8; accounts of, 11, 12, 3