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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16,340 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3,098 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2,132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,974 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,668 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,628 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,386 0 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 1,170 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1,092 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
ildlike and free. His male friends say that he seems more American than English: but she is more interesting. November 20, 1854 I've been wondering if the United States Grand Jury would find bills against any of us rioters, but suppose there is now no chance of that, as they reported to-day. Mr. Hallett has failed again, ther those cases do not diminish, the District Attorney almost despairs of ever reaching ours, and would gladly throw them up if he with propriety could do so. The United States processes are only just being announced, in fact only two have yet been made public, and I do not yet know whether I shall come in for a share of those or not.lass of foaming ale. No other gustatory novelty save macaroni pudding. I wish to chronicle, however, that I never saw guests eat faster in America — I mean the United States. Also I never had a scantier supply of water and towels — far inferior to Niagara, though, to be sure, water is what people come there for. I am now writin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
his policy, hers graceful as if she were sweeping the boards, technically so called. We all like her. She is so off the stage what she was on it, simple, earnest, high-minded, sensible. We had blackberries and milk, and after this pastoral entertainment galloped home through the wood paths by the young moon. I forgot to tell Mr. Hay for Old Abe's delectation that the little drummer boys of Mrs. Dewhurst's school all nodded eagerly when she asked if they knew who was President of the United States. On her requesting them to name him, they burst out in an eager chorus, Uncle Sam. The Department of the South had earlier been described as a military picnic. About this time the chaplain of the regiment, when on a scouting expedition with some of the men, was captured, and imprisoned for a year. No news of the chaplain except sometimes through fugitive slaves, who report that the rebels pronounce him a d — d saucy Yankee as they ever met, which I can easily credit. Under the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
ing assumed a name or having swindled others. September 15, 1889 . . . I enjoyed my Guilford [Connecticut] trip. It is an old town on the Sound full of old houses, one of them two hundred and fifty years old this year, the oldest in the United States, a stone house in perfect condition. There Rev. John Higginson married Parson Whitfield's daughter. All the old houses were labelled with the year they were built and often with the names of the earlier residents; so that it was like steppiuperbly rousing way the negro spirituals I love. The leader, a magnificently big and strong fellow, could fill the Stadium, I think, with his voice alone. On talking with him later, I found that he had studied my Young folks' history of the United States. Besides singing we had speeches, and one superb one from a Richmond professor, wholly modern and enthusiastic in new thoughts . . . Last evening we had jovial story-telling in which the Virginians beat out and out and Yankees were nowhere.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
Fremont, Col. John C., 160, 161; reception to, 170. Frothingham, Octavius B., 49. Froude, J. A., dinner to, 267, 268. G Garrison, William Lloyd, described by Whittier, 8, 9, 11; described by Higginson, 93. Gaston, Lieut. R. M., death of, 205, 206. Geary. John W., Governor of Kansas, 141-43. Gibbs, Miss, of Newport, 224, 225. Gilder, Richard Watson, 234, 235. Goldschmidt, Otto, husband of Jenny Lind, 39, 40. Gomez, Capt., 191, 192. Goodell, John, 171. Grant, Gen. U. S., at Newport, 254, 255. Guild, Mrs., Edward, 269. Gurneys, the Russell, 280, 281. H Hale, John P., 70. Hale, Sarah, 3. Hallet, Benjamin F., 69. Hanover, King of, funeral of, 288, 289. Harkness, Major, 178, 179. Harper's Ferry, 87. Harte, Bret, 261; loans to, 330. Harvard Divinity School, graduation, 4, 5. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 254. Hawthorne, Una, daughter of Nathaniel, 237-40, 277. Hay, John, Lincoln's secretary, 202. Hayes, Dr. Isaac I., Arctic explorer, 90-92