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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 67 11 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 16 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 12 0 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 10 2 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 7 3 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 4 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 4 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 4 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
hat, in the opinion of a competent authority, he might, before he left, have been at the head of any railroad in the West that needed a manager. He remained at Burlington two years, in which time his health became gradually established, and he began to feel once more a happy confidence that he had a share in the life of this worlwell was requested to take charge of the Mt. Savage Iron Works, an important establishment at Cumberland, Maryland. He had come to regard himself as settled at Burlington, and had grown really attached to his mode of life. But he did not hesitate to accept this opportunity of returning to his former plans. In November we find hd I do not see why other mothers should. The greatest kindness to our troops now is to teach them to use what they have. June 7. [To C. E. Perkins, Esq., Burlington.] I cannot say I take any great pleasure in the contemplation of the future. I fancy you feel much as I do about the profitableness of a soldier's life, and wo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
ces a strength of will which no difficulties could daunt, and his character appears well suited to his new experiences. A very short and inadequate idea of his Burlington life is all that can be given, and his own words shall give it. Burlington, Iowa, December, 1860. Yesterday was such a glorious day that we went ofas filled with the one thought of serving his country, and nothing prevented him from enlisting at this time but the dissuasions of his mother. He returned to Burlington in July, 1861, and remained there till the autumn of 1862; but not a letter was written during this time that did not show his ardor unabated, his earnest longiofficer. He was too modest and simple to wish for fame. Nothing would have been dearer to him than to have deserved this high opinion of a valued friend in Burlington:— We were constantly and intimately together; I learned to know him as one of the truest and best of men. His manhood was of a high and noble kind. We se