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niel F.,21Waltham, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Walcott, Aaron F.,25Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Transferred Dec. 6, 1861 to 3d Battery. Wallace, Alexander,27Charlestown, Ma.Sept. 8, 1862Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Walker, Eugene C.,27Brookline, Ma.Feb. 12, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Walker, John S., Jr.,18Boston, Ma.Jan. 20, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Walsh, Yates,26Boston, Ma.Feb. 2, 1864Transferred to 4th Battery. Walton, WilliaWalker, John S., Jr.,18Boston, Ma.Jan. 20, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Walsh, Yates,26Boston, Ma.Feb. 2, 1864Transferred to 4th Battery. Walton, William W.,27Taunton, Ma.Feb. 17, 1864June 11, 1865, expiration of service. Second Battery Light Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers—(three years.)—Continued. Name and Rank.Age.Residence orDate of Muster.Termination of Service and Cause Thereof. Place Credited to. Warner, Charles J.,19Deerfield, Ma.Jan. 1, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Watkey, Edward,23Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Sept. 23, 1861, disability. Wheeler, Howard O.,22Boston, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of se<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
nking of leaving Fall River. Among settled divines the game of Puss-in-the-corner seems growing harder and hotter. The Fugitive Slave Law has mightily stimulated it. But how finely our Unitarian brethren have done and are doing, on that point. It shows the clergy to be a grade above politicians, after all, that the capitalists have less power to muzzle the Reverends than the Honorables. Perhaps you read an editorial of mine in the Commonwealth, some 2 months ago, on Sims' case. It was Dr. Walker who said to me, apropos de Sims, that if these things continued the pulpit would become a refuge for scoundrels! Don't of course imagine my mind at all anxious or perplexed. I have plenty to occupy me and the current of thought may float me as it pleases. Although Mr. Higginson had fancied his preaching days were over, he received in 1852 an invitation to take charge of a Free Church in Worcester, an organization which the influence of Theodore Parker had just brought into existence
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
ed, in the Brigadier-General commanding opposing troops, a former Brattleboro acquaintance. He wrote, April 19, 1863:— The best thing is that this Brigadier-General Walker . . . is an old friend! He is that Lieutenant Walker, U. S. A., who was sick at the Water Cure and liked me because of my physique and my abolitionism, Lieutenant Walker, U. S. A., who was sick at the Water Cure and liked me because of my physique and my abolitionism, he being a desperately pro-slavery invalid; who afterwards met me in Kansas as Captain Walker, with a cavalry company to arrest Redpath and me, and would n't do it for old acquaintance sake— and here he is across the river, face to face with me again! In July, the absent son wrote of the delight with which a box of goodies froCaptain Walker, with a cavalry company to arrest Redpath and me, and would n't do it for old acquaintance sake— and here he is across the river, face to face with me again! In July, the absent son wrote of the delight with which a box of goodies from the North was received:— I am sitting at my tent door and there is a great moon rising: the tents look like the Pyramids against it. I have a box from mother with eatables—real boarding-school and I give them to the boys. And describing the contents of a later box from home, he says, All the pauses of life filled in with
of, 98. Todd, Mabel Loomis, edits poems of Emily Dickinson, 368, 369. Topeka, Kan., letter from, 172, 173; account of, 175, 176. Travellers and Outlaws, 319, 418. Tubman, Harriet, 219. Twain, Mark, account of, 259, 260, 373, 374. Tyndall, John, 335; Higginson hears, 324; letter from, 327. Underwood, F. H., and Atlantic, 155; Higginson's protest to, 158. Up the St. Mary's, 251, 409. Vere, Aubrey de, Higginson on, 323. Voltaire, Centenary, 340; birthplace, 341. Walker, Brig.-Gen., and Higginson, 227, 228. Ward, Julia, 26. See also Howe, Julia Ward. Ware, Thornton, 17, 18. Washington, Booker, school, 365; and northern colored people, 366. Washington, D. C., plan for safety of, 203-05. Wasson, David, and T. W. Higginson, 100, 101. Webb, R. D., Higginson visits, 322. Weiss, Rev. Mr., 267. Weld, Samuel, Higginson teaches in school of, 41-46. Wells, William, his school, 14, 15. Wentworth, Sir, John, 4. Wentworth, John, Governor of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
. His first published work, The dialogue of Alcuin (1797), dealt with questions of marriage and divorce, and he was also the author of several essays on political, historical, and geographical subjects. His novels followed each other with astonishing rapidity: Sky Walk; or the man unknown to himself (1798, not published), Wieland; or the Transformation (1798), Ormond ; or the secret witness (1799), Arthur Mervyn ; or Mlemoirs of the year 1793 (1799-1800), Edgar Huntly; or memoirs of a sleep Walker (1801), Jane Talbot (1801), and Clara Howard; or the enthusiasm of love (1801). When, thirty years later, in 1834, the historian Jared Sparks undertook the publication of a Library of American biography, he included in the very first volumewith a literary instinct most creditable to one so absorbed in the severer tasks of history -a memoir of Charles Brockden Brown by W. H. Prescott. It was an appropriate tribute to the first writer of imaginative prose in America, and also the first to
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 23: three months in Congress. (search)
ly to other business-mainly because they must await the Senate's action on the Thomson substitute. At length—after weary watching till five o'clock in the morning, when even garrulity had exhausted itself with talking on all manner of frivolous pretexts, and relapsed into grateful silence—when profligacy had been satiated with rascally votes of the public money in gratuities to almost everybody connected with Congress, &c., &c.,—word came that the Senate had receded altogether from its Walker amendment and everything of the sort, agreeing to the bill as an Appropriation Bill simply, and killing the House amendment by surrendering its own. Close on its heels came the Senate's concurrence in the House bill extending the Revenue Laws to California; and a message was sent with both bills to rouse Mr. Polk (still President by sufferance) from his first slumbers at the Irving House (whither he had retired from the Capitol some hours before), and procure his signature to the two bills. <
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 28: day and night in the Tribune office. (search)
ged gentleman who advertises his desire to open a correspondence with a young lady (all communications post-paid and the strictest secresy observed), you might peruse with anxiety these seven advertisements of hair-dye, each of which is either infallible, unapproachable, or the acknowledged best. And the eye of the young lady who addresses you a post-paid communication in reply, informing you where an interview may be had, would perhaps rest for a moment upon the description of the new Baby-Walker, with some complacency. If the negotiation were successful, it were difficult to say what column of advertisements would not, in its turn, become of the highest interest to one or the other, or both of you. In truth, every one reads the advertisements which concern them. The wonders of the telegraph are not novel, and, therefore, they seem wonderful no longer. We glance up and down the columns of telegraphic intelligence, and read without the slightest emotion, dispatches from Michigan,
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
r's backs, And the whole river is alive with quacks. The secret of this haste, this fluttering, skipping, Is plain to see: the last duck gets a whipping. School done, without a moment wasting, Our flock poured out glad, careless, hasting, But our last duck had a most thorough basting O happy days and wise! I need not tell How hard we worked when “choosing sides” to spell. Now wins the enemy, now our ranks swell; 'T is almost night, yet still the conflict rages, And heavy batteries fire from Walker's pages; Now here, now there, the favorite champion crosses, Sometimes our gains are great, sometimes our losses. But say, to them who, in life's earnest fight For victory strive, brings any triumph quite The overflowing, unalloyed delight, The joy, as when our side spelled “phthisic” right? My sketch were faulty, with entire omission Of our great crowning glory, Exhibition. Though scarce could you expect one of my age All that was spoke in public on the stage To recollect, yet Shylock's
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
. II., p. 92. That energetic lieutenant had carried them out to the letter. It is now time to look to Pope's movements. While Jackson's column was executing this flank movement to the rear of Pope, Lee retained Longstreet's command in his front to divert his attention, and learning that Pope was about to receive re-enforcements from McClellan, he ordered forward the remainder of his army from Richmond. This force consisted of D. H. Hill's and McLaws' divisions, two brigades under General Walker, and Hampton's cavalry brigade. Nevertheless, the stealthy march of Jackson did not pass unbeknown to the Union commander, who received very precise information respecting his movement northward, though he was unable to divine its aim. The information was derived from Colonel J. S. Clark, of the staff of General Banks. That officer remained all day in a perilous position within sight of Jackson's moving column, and counted its force, which he found to be thirty six regiments of infan
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
s, the two divisions of McLaws, and the division of Walker, was assigned. Jackson was to proceed by way of Shlls on the Maryland side known as Maryland Heights; Walker was to cross the Potomac below Harper's Ferry and ttely proceeded to put himself in communication with Walker and McLaws, who were respectively to co-op erate in the investment from Loudon and Maryland heights. Walker was already in position on Loudon Heights, and McLawng some pieces up the rugged steep, and Jackson and Walker being already in position, the investment of Harper and fifty; Hayes' brigade, five hundred and fifty; Walker's brigade, seven hundred. This would make a total regimental commander and all of his staff; and Colonel Walker and one of his staff had been disabled, and they rout. two Confederate divisions, under McLaws and Walker, taken from the Confederate right, reached the fielder Longstreet— namely, the divisions of McLaws and Walker—and this force he applied at the point of actual co
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