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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1845. (search)
I want you to take charge of this work, and it is to be completed before daylight. The officer, exhausted by the fatigue he had undergone, replied, Colonel, I am sorry, but it is physically impossible for me to do it; I am utterly prostrated. His commander came close to him, saying, I know you are; I wonder you have stood it so long. I am nearly exhausted myself; but remain where you are, get what rest you can, and I will see that the work is done. Daylight found it finished. On the 2d of June they reached Cold Harbor, and soon after noon occupied the front line of works. Colonel Porter had such information as led him to believe that a charge would be ordered that afternoon upon the enemy's works, situated within one hundred rods of the front. He gave his officers full instructions how he wished the duty to be performed, passing frequently along the whole line, a prominent mark for the enemy's sharpshooters. At length night came on, and with it a heavy rain. Major Willett, t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1853. (search)
led. Some of us know the sagacity and perseverance by which he gained his point. On his arrival within the Union lines, he writes, I cannot describe our thankfulness and heart-swell; and on reaching his regiment, I cannot describe their welcome; God knows I should be proud to deserve it. I have never known greater happiness or thankfulness than to-night. Of his return to the regiment, another, an eyewitness, has given the following account:— It was in the dusk of Monday evening, June 2d, just after evening parade, while officers and men were in or about their tents, many talking of the Major and his probable fate, that a stir was perceived among the officers. The lamented Captain Cary was heard to exclaim, Good heavens, the Major! as he rushed forwards; then the Major was seen running on foot towards the regiment. The officers ran to meet him. More than one lifted him in his arms. The men ran from their tents towards the limits of the camp. They could not be restraine
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
used to go on the sick-list, when so many able-bodied men were shirking their duty. He determined to stay with the old red diamond (the division badge) till it reached Richmond, or die on the road. The last two days of May he suffered severely from want of sleep, coughing violently whenever he lay down. Unwillingly he allowed his tent-mate to hold him in his arms that he might rest. All this time, studiously concealing his condition as far as possible, he performed his official labors. June 2, he wrote to his wife, I shall, perhaps, have to give up duty for a day or two. Nothing but a spasmodic cough. It was pneumonia. June 5 he wrote, on board the steamer, Here I am on my way to you,—not wounded. I shall rest a day in Washington, at Duddington. （Duddington is the old Carroll mansion, still inhabited by members of the Carroll family, cousins of Major Birney's mother.) He reached Duddington on the 6th of June. Though very sick and travel-worn, he wrote with his own hand the