Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Devens” in chapter 10, page 247 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays:

...able, since I might have been ordered to deliver up fugitive slaves to their masters,--as had already happened to several officers. I have often thought what a difference it might have made in both Devens 's life and mine if I had accepted this early opportunity. I might have come out a major-general, as he did; but I dare say that the government gained by the exchange a better soldier than it lost. ...
Max. Freq. Min. Freq.
Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Charles Devens 589 12 47 0 0 user votes
Devens 213 0 81 0 0 user votes
C. Devens 60 0 2 0 0 user votes
Richard Devens 27 0 3 0 0 user votes
Edward F. Devens 15 0 3 0 0 user votes
Chas Devens 13 0 5 0 0 user votes
David Devens 11 0 1 0 0 user votes
Edward Fesser Devens 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
N. Y. Devens 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
Mary Devens 4 4 0 0 0 user votes
Thomas Devens 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
S. A. Devens 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
T. Charles Devens 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Charles A. Devens 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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