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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
men, though about twenty thousand had passed through his hands since September. The sceptics need only to come out here to be converted. On the 2d of May he was married to Anne Kneeland, daughter of Ogden Haggerty, Esq., of New York; and on the 28th of the same month he left Boston at the head of as fine and well drilled a regiment as had ever left the city. Their triumphal march through Boston has been often described. He himself wrote of it thus:— steamer de Molay, off Cape Hatteras, June 1, 1863. The more I think of the passage of the Fifty-fourth through Boston, the more wonderful it seems to me. Just remember our own doubts and fears, and other people's sneering and pitying remarks, when we began last winter, and then look at the perfect triumph of last Thursday. We have gone quietly along, forming the regiment, and at last left Boston amidst a greater enthusiasm than has been seen since the first three months troops left for the war. . . . . Truly, I ought t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
lying near Fortress Monroe, the superior officers of his company left him for a little while in command, and during that period his courage and presence of mind were severely tested by the mutinous behavior of a portion of his men; but by his resolute bearing and prompt and decisive measures, order was soon restored, and the recusants returned to duty. After a few days' detention the body of troops to which he was attached sailed for the Mississippi. They encountered a heavy storm off Cape Hatteras, stopped for coal at Key West, and arrived at New Orleans on the 16th of December. They immediately proceeded up the river to Carrollton, where they went into camp and remained till March. During this interval, on a brief expedition to Plaquemines with two companies besides his own, Lieutenant Haven found himself under fire, and the troops remained by night for several hours exposed to the artillery of a United States gunboat, whose officers took them for Rebels. In February, while