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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 12 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
62. Brevet Brig. General, Mar. 13, 1865. Retired, Dec. 15, 1870. Died at Louisville, Ky., Jan. 3, 1871. Lowell, Charles Russell. Born at Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1835. Offered his services to the Secretary of War at Washington, D. C., Apr. 24, 1861. Captain, 3d (afterwards 6th) U. S. Cavalry, May 14, 1861. Served in Peninsular campaign under General Stoneman. Aide-de-Camp, staff, of Maj. General McClellan, July 10 to Nov. 6, 1861; selected in recognition of his bravery to carry to Washington the flags captured at Antietam, Md. Colonel, 2d Mass. Cavalry, Apr. 15, 1863. Left Boston, May, 1863; in command of cavalry in the department of Washington, D. C.; for many months occupied in active warfare with the bands of guerillas which infested the neighborhood of Washington. Engaged in the active raids of General Sheridan in 1864, in the Valley of the Shenandoah, during which he had thirteen horses shot under him. Engaged in the battle of Rockville, Va.; in charge of Provisional B
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
s and drawers, both cotton and flannel, etc. They were made by auxiliary societies, and poor women who were paid for their work by benevolent people. All work was voluntary and done by women, mostly from Boston, and no one was paid from the treasury of the commission except a porter, who was a hired assistant. Even the spacious rooms they occupied at 22 Summer Street were rent free. In addition to the garments manufactured the first year, they purchased and shipped, on requisition from Washington, hospital edibles, like farina, condensed milk, beef stock, tea, sugar, cocoa, jellies, fresh and dried fruit, wines, syrups, tamarinds, etc.; and hospital supplies, like surgical instruments, washing-machines, soap, sponges, mutton tallow, cologne, bay rum, lint, bandages, fans, oiled silk, combs, stationery, games, handkerchiefs, caps, hats, towels and books,—in all costing $10,231.54. When the army of the Potomac was employed in the unfortunate peninsular campaign, in a low, swampy,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
Peninsular battles; with map. Century, vol. 30, p. 136. —Report for the peninsular campaign, and correspondence with Washington. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 1, pp. 340, 356, 417. —Rev. of. J. R. Lowell. North American Rev., vol. 98, p. 550. transfer four companies to Massachusetts regiment, and money appropriated for relief of their families; in letter from Washington; short paragraph. Boston Evening Journal, Oct. 18, 1861, p. 2, cols. 3, 5. Mechanicsville, Va. Battle of June 26Leslie's, criticism of. N. Y. Nation, vol. 2, p. 185. — War relics. Geo. Kimball. Bivouac, vol. 3, p. 168. — Washington, N. C., March, April, 1863; interesting details of life during the siege; bomb-proofs, etc. Dr. Theodore W. Fisher, Surgeop. Atlantic, vol. 8, p. 105. — Washington on the eve of war. Gen. Chas. P. Stone. Century, vol. 26, p. 458. Washington, N. C. 1862. May 12. Cos. C and E, 24th Regt. M. V. I., go there as base for a scouting expedition; general view of
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), W (search)
, VIII., 65; endangered, and President calls for men, VIII., (68; New York Seventy-first leaves for, VIII., 69; defenses prepared, VIII., 70; Twelfth New York waiting orders from, VIII., 72, 73; reception on Pennsylvania Avenue to New York Seventh Infantry, VIII., 74, 79, 89, 109; Old Capital Prison, VIII., 289; Central Signal Station at, VIII., 305; U. S. Signal Corps Headquarters, VIII., 333; cemetery at Soldiers' Home, IX., 281: Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, X., 16, 17. Washington, N. C., II., 322. Washington,, U. S. S., VI., 82. Washington and Lee University, Va.: I., 17; IX., 122, 130, 132; X., 57, 59, 72. Washington Artillery Company, Charleston, S. C. , V., 60. Washington Artillery, the, of New Orleans (see also New Orleans, La.): L., 14, 199; II., 53, 125; Miller's battery of, II., 59, 95, 122; men of, II., 164, 165; V., 58, 63, 64, 72, 74; VIII., 119, 125, 127, 150; officers of, IX., 329, 343. Washington Grays, N. Y. (see New York Eighth