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Fernandina, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
would if they were composed of anything but pork. January 21, 1863 Being so near Georgia, I have thought it best to be provided with the summer costume attributed to Georgians — a shirt collar and a pair of spurs; and have accordingly purchased both those articles. January 23 saw Colonel Higginson in command of three vessels, bound on a foraging trip up the St. Mary's River. This expedition was fully described in Army life. After his return he wrote: . . . Do you know at Fernandina I tea'd with three schoolmistresses and it is quite bewildering; I had forgotten that there were so many women in the world. . . . Here I never see a white woman, save two Irish lieutenantesses. Camp Saxton, February 24 Our army does not seem to me as vivacious as many suppose, but slouchy and slovenly, ill-kept and ill-handled. In this respect the navy is far superior to it; there is a universal neatness and discipline which forms a refreshing contrast. Water is a cleaner element, t
New Bern (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
l of the new nine months regiments are said to be now under orders for Newbern, North Carolina, but there is no intimation about ours-only Colonel Sprague thinks he ll in Mechanics Hall to celebrate the election, and shall probably be off for Newbern before many weeks. It is doubtful whether my company retains permanently thut guns and may be ordered off at any time. The steamers return this month to Newbern, but I think a Springfield regiment will go instead of ours and we at the nextng, we as yet know nothing, but the latter cannot be very far off. If we go to Newbern we cannot go for a fortnight or more; if we go with Banks we may be ordered toCamp Wool, November 12 We have marching orders (which I have seen) to go to Newbern by the return steamers. Only two regiments are to go, and we shall have a steon an uncertainty. Our regiment will probably leave in about a week, for Newbern. Colonel Sprague's rule is perfectly delightful — a silken glove and a hand o
Guilford, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
The following extracts from Colonel Higginson's letters and journals were written, for the most part, while with his black soldiers. Camp Saxton, Beaufort, S. C., December 1, 1862 . . .General Saxton has lent me a horse and I had a ride through the plantation to a strange old fort, of which there are two here, like those in St. Augustine, built by a French explorer about the time of the Pilgrims, and older, therefore, than any remains in New England, even the Higginson house at Guilford, Connecticut. They are built of a curious combination of oyster shells and cement . .. and are still hard and square, save where water-worn. One is before this house and a mere low redoubt; the other, two miles off, is a high square house, bored with holes for musketry and the walls still firm; though a cannon-ball would probably crush them. . .. William, our attendant, speaks with contempt of the cultivation of this famous plantation--No yam, sa; no white potato, no brimstone --which is the
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
chosen our field officers... . Had the original programme been carried out, I should probably have been major, but for that I care nothing. . . . I think it will all go smooth; in which case we shall have altogether the ablest field among the New England nine-months regiments. I am senior captain, at present, with the right of the line --that is, marching first in column — and my company and lieutenants were glad not to have me promoted — which was pleasant. We have everything now but gn has lent me a horse and I had a ride through the plantation to a strange old fort, of which there are two here, like those in St. Augustine, built by a French explorer about the time of the Pilgrims, and older, therefore, than any remains in New England, even the Higginson house at Guilford, Connecticut. They are built of a curious combination of oyster shells and cement . .. and are still hard and square, save where water-worn. One is before this house and a mere low redoubt; the other, tw
LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
lot to write military memoirs; I should have to dip my pen in stronger superlatives than I ever mixed before. Here is the latest Beaufort anecdote. There is a New York regiment here which calls itself Les Enfans Perdus, or the lost children, being composed of all nations-officers chiefly French. One of these, the adjutant, was criticizing some of General Hunter's late movements, and some one in joke threatened him with Fort La Fayette. Vas dat you say! he cried in a rage; ven you say La Fayette, take off your hat (suiting the action to the word). Ven you say Vashinton, take off your ht (uncovering again). Ven you say Huntare, do as me,--ah-h-h (gripping his hat over his ears with both hands, grinding his teeth, and running away in an ecstasy of despair). You may fancy from this that there is no enthusiasm felt here over the failure at Charleston and the evacuation of Jacksonville. In another letter Colonel Higginson says that the above regiment, the One Hundredth New York
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
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
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
robably forego the Saxton offer rather than resign on an uncertainty. Our regiment will probably leave in about a week, for Newbern. Colonel Sprague's rule is perfectly delightful — a silken glove and a hand of iron. A few days in South Carolina convinced Higginson that no pro-Slavery influence was apt to destroy General Saxton's project and he resigned his commission in the Massachusetts regiment. After taking command of the colored regiment, Colonel Higginson wrote from the Soutnd stayed on deck when I drove all others under; and when Montgomery was surprised at Palatka and Lieutenant-Colonel--wounded, old Gomez tried to work the gun himself. After the Florida trip the regiment was picketed at Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina. April 12 . .. In the misty gray of the morning, I rode out to the ferry amid rose scents and the song of early birds, hearing for the first time the chuck-will's widow, the Southern whip-poor-will, whose peculiar note I at once recognize
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
soldierly appearance may seem extravagant, but you must remember that there are no good white regiments anywhere except regulars and a few others, chiefly from Massachusetts, and then that my men have some great advantages. All white soldiers look dirty, whether they are or not, from the sunburn and the beard, whereas my men's combt as good officers as the average, but I think of Lieutenant-Colonel Maggi's dismay. . . . Apparently all American officers in white regiments (except from Massachusetts and a few batteries) have the proverbial souls above buttons. I'm sure I wish they had n't. The allusion to Colonel Maggi is explained by an earlier letteit just outside our camp lines. Last year also I found it early in February; two war winters rolling over its head and just the same white creature here as in Massachusetts. It symbolizes military life, though, whose forms and pageants are all innocent enough to look at — baby watches dress parade every day — till some morning un
St. Simon's Island (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
strain the negroes; they are capable of heroic abstinence. I will have none but civilized warfare in my regiment, but the public may not discriminate. Hilton Head, June 26 Montgomery and the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts are recalled from St. Simon's Island and put here for a time, or just across from here on St. Helena Island, where I shall hardly see them. The officers of the Fifty-Fourth have never had a glimpse of my regiment; this I mention because Stephen seemed to confound their critir sergeants are right smart scribes. I believe I could say that of ours. Advanced Picket, March 13 At this very moment the burly major is just swinging in the hammock on the piazza and talking with a squad of women whom he brought from St. Simon's Island, and who stand in their clean Sunday array, erect and stately as Nubians, recalling past days. He is asking them how about Mrs. Kemble, whose neighbors they were, and they are putting together their scraps of reminiscence about her which a
Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
owards a bolder anti-slavery policy, and it was foreseen that several defeats would be needed to bring us to that. The desideratum is to approach a policy of emancipation by stages so clear and irresistible as to retain for that end an united public sentiment. With the aid of favoring circumstances I think this possible, and events seem to me fortunate or otherwise in proportion as they tend this way. September 6 Yesterday General Butler made a speech here unexpectedly on his way to Lowell; I did not hear it, but it was said to be very bold and radical; saying especially that wherever our armies went they must carry Freedom with them, since it was absurd to fight to give the benefit of our institutions to those who do not desire them (the masters) and not to those who do (the slaves). How wonderfully the Hatteras affair has set that man up again — and indeed the nation. November 1, 1861 You will never take a hopeful view of anything, I see, till you give up that unfortuna
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