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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
, and of the O. K. Where I shall go, or what I shall do, immediately after leaving college, is quite uncertain. Pardon Almy was the second of the Class to die,—he was the first to die on the field of battle. Unhappily, he was not the last so to die; and how many more cherished friends, how many more valuable lives, the wicked Slaveholders' Rebellion will cost us, it is impossible to say. Note by the Editor.—This sentence is allowed to remain as originally written in the Class-Book, April 22, 1863, by its author, who himself enlisted within a month after that time, and died within six months, in the service. His biography precedes this in the volume. Immediately after Commencement, 1861, (where he delivered an essay upon The Prospects of Africa,) Almy went to New Bedford, where his brother Charles Almy resided, and opened a recruiting-office in that city,—having been promised by Governor Andrew a captain's commission in case he should enlist a company. He was introduced by h<