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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
y voluntarily, he read the Scripture, and out of the fulness of his heart poured forth in prayer his own thoughts in his own words. Some of the officers who were present spoke of it as a surprise to all, and most impressive and inspiring to the whole command. The following letter describes his last experience in the service previous to the encounter in which he was wounded. It was written to a classmate. June 14, 1864. Last night I returned from a scout through Dumfries and Occoquan, through Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and Wilderness, and back by way of Manassas and Bull Run. We were out six days. What a conflict that was of the Wilderness! throughout that Wilderness, eighteen miles through, was a vast, hand-tohand, grappling fight for days and nights; terrible throes and struggles it required to drive the Rebels out of the thicket. Unburied bodies, Rebels and Northerners, are now scattered among the trees. The trees are torn and shivered by the sleet of b