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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 14 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
nt, and amiability he joined the indomitable pluck, energy, and resolution which become the man. When, before the regiment had yet been in action, officers around their camp or picket fires at night would discuss its possible behavior, there was one universal sentiment, namely, that Jim Savage at least would fight, as it was once expressed, like Mr. Valiant-for-Truth, until his sword clove to his hand. And this prediction he well fulfilled at Newtown, Winchester, and Cedar Mountain. Robert Shaw wrote, after the death of his friend:—-- There is no life like the one we have been leading to show what a man is really made of; and Jim's true purity, conscientiousness, and manliness were well known to us all. The mere fact of having him among us did us all much good. . . . . Neither shall I ever forget the three weeks I lived in the same room with him at Frederick, when I learned how truly good a man can be. . . . . Out of his own family, there can be no more sincere mourning for
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1856. (search)
wounds. Of those five killed, moreover, three went into battle almost too ill to stand, of whom Stephen Perkins was one. All our officers behaved nobly, wrote Robert Shaw after this battle, in a letter which will be found elsewhere in full. Those who ought to have stayed away did n't. It was splendid to see those sick fellows waives of perfect ease and luxury. In a contest so hot, individual casualties pass for a time unnoticed, and often the precise facts can never be established. Robert Shaw says: The men were ordered to lie down until the enemy came nearer. Almost all the officers kept on their feet, though. This readily explains the fearful lossot in his place. The body was found a little way to the rear, pierced with three bullets. His remains were identified on the next day by General Gordon and Captain Shaw, and were, after due preparation, sent to Washington, and thence to Oakhill Cemetery, Georgetown. There took place on the 25th of September that simple and to
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
quick, decided step, as he moved, showed that, beneath this quiet exterior, lay all the qualities that belong to a man of more than common character. This was Robert Shaw, who now lies buried on Morris Island, in Charleston Harbor, one of the many thousand young men who have fallen victims to that Moloch, American Slavery, or we eaths the Moloch, American Slavery, has fallen a victim. He was born in Boston on the 10th of October, 1837, the son of Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw. He early showed marked traits of character; he was quicktempered, but very affectionate, easily led, but never to be driven. At a very early age he was sent to p a correspondence with him until his death, and who writes of him as follows after hearing that sad news:— De ce cote de l'ocean, tous ceux qui ont connu Robert Shaw regrettent vivement sa perte, et sympathisent du fond de leur coeur avec les douleurs qu'elle a causees dans sa famille et dans son pays, ou il avait deja su, s