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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1849. (search)
ajor Peabody, who combines in a happy degree those qualities which the occasion and the times demand. Major Peabody's own letters now afford almost a continuous narrative:— camp Lander, August 27, 1861. dear——, —I am ordered to Kansas City, and expect roughness. I shall send home, in the course of a day or two, my contract with the Platte Railroad Company; and in case I go up, which is very likely, I want to have the rest of you take what I have made, and use it to the bestd by, old fellow. I have a sort of presentiment that I shall go under. If I do, it shall be in a manner that the old family shall feel proud of it. Yours, Everett. Lexington, September 24, 1861. dear——, —Finding nothing to do at Kansas City, I moved down about eight hundred and fifty men to this place, on the 4th. On the 7th I started southward with Colonel Marshall (First Illinois Cavalry) in command, towards Warrensburg. After progressing, in his fashion, eighteen mile