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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
g for his country. He was not moved by the love of glory or adventure, although, being of good constitution, he did not fear hardship. He Went because it was his duty to go, feeling, as other noble spirits felt, that he should be ashamed to look his friends in the face, or hold up his head anywhere, if he did not do his part When the war broke out he was in Russia, having taken this long voyage, in the spring of 186, in the hope of thus doing something for the benefit of his eyes. The Russian merchants, to whom he and his companion had letters, received their accounts of the state of things in the United States through the most hostile English sources; and what he heard from them, of course, filled him with alarm and dismay. He hastened home, and after a very short time spent in learning the rudiments of military drill, accepted the position of First Lieutenant in Company G of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, to which post he was recommended by Colonel Devens, who then com