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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
t. The streets are empty and still, the shops all shut, and it seems like a perpetual Sunday. These were the last lines he wrote before his illness. He and Dr. Fisher, in whom he found a most congenial coadjutor, appreciated very highly the extraordinary opportunities for surgical and anatomical study that the condition of th as he had told a medical friend, he feared he should not escape in the spring. For several days he wandered in his mind, talking about the experiments he and Dr. Fisher had in hand, or imagining himself on the battle-field. The day that he died was the critical one. . . . .A violent cannonade from the Rebel batteries, nearer a funeral services were held there at the request of the regiment. The final interment took place at Mount Auburn on the 1st of May following. His assistant, Dr. Fisher, wrote:— I cannot but think that the anxiety and fatigue of his assiduous and unremitting labors for the regiment, which he had previously borne so well,