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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 11 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
ight only as he would most wish to be known, as a true patriot and soldier, ready, as he had more than once declared, to give his life for his country. James Amory Perkins. First Lieutenant 24th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), September 2, 1861; killed at Morris Island, S. C., August 26, 1863. James Amory Perkins was born in DJames Amory Perkins was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on the 9th of July, 1836. His father was William Perkins, a merchant in Boston. His mother was Catherine Callender, daughter of John Amory, Esq., of Dorchester. Both his parents survive him. His youth was passed in Boston. At school he is remembered as having been at first an exceedingly quiet boy, ny duty . . . . . And so his friends knew that they could lean on him as one to be always trusted. Rarely do we see a more robust character than that of James Amory Perkins. Able, untiring, conscientious, he conquered every difficulty in his path, and thoroughly discharged every duty he had to perform. His military service wa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
, a distance of about five miles. Here the ambulance was attacked by Mosby's guerillas. Henry was sitting on the front seat with the driver; Captain Mali and Captain Perkins of his regiment were inside, being very severely wounded. The order was given by the guerillas to get out and unhitch the horses. Before those who were able ground, and there he lay during the night. The horrors of that night let its own darkness cover. Captain Mali says, I never felt so bad in my life before; both Perkins and myself being unable to move, and he lying dying four or five feet from us. Sergeant Dunn of the Massachusetts Fifty-sixth found him in the morning insensibley. He participated in the affair of August 26, 1863, when the enemy's rifle-pits in front of Wagner were carried by a wellexecuted assault, in which Lieutenant James A. Perkins was killed. The brigade to which Rea belonged was assigned to the assault of the fort some time later, and first made the discovery that the enemy had