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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
nt Commissary of Musters. At about the same time he was commissioned First Lieutenant. Higher rank he might have attained by returning to his regiment; but he felt himself better suited for staff duty, and preferred serving where he could be of most use, even at a sacrifice of rank. At one time he was detailed at Little Washington, first as Judge-Advocate, afterwards as Assistant Engineer. I am at present, he writes, May 15, 1863, putting up two earthworks, one to mount a hundred-pounder Parrott and three long thirty-twos, and the other a tete-de-pont on the redan principle. It makes one brush up the mathematics. He became attached to North Carolina, and, although offered positions at other places, continued at Newbern, fated soon to become a city of the dead under the terrible scourge of the yellow fever. Although this disease was not recognized at the time of his death, his weakened constitution rendered him an easy prey before the plague had approached any other. He was ill