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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
ot need that to keep him ever in my recollection, yet as he expressed that wish of himself, I should be glad to comply with it. During the summer months the friends of George were made aware, from pauses in his correspondence, and from an occasional allusion to a slight illness, that his health was impaired from the duties and exposures of the campaign; and they keenly felt the impossibility of doing anything to obtain relief or respite, in order that his strength might be recruited. July 15, he wrote from Malverton, Virginia:— President Lincoln has been here, visiting the various camps and reviewing the regiments. The day on which he came to our division was the one to which, on account of illness and headache, I marked with a particularly wide and heavy black mark. On this account I could not rouse up sufficiently to go twenty rods to see him, though ordinarily I would go to a much greater distance, for I believe in him most thoroughly as the man for this most tr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1865. (search)
On the 3d of June the Fifty-fourth reached Hilton Head, and on the 10th took part in an expedition to Florida, under command of Colonel Montgomery, in the course of which they burned the deserted town of Darien, by order of the commanding officer. He writes: This is not the sort of work I came for, nor do I believe it good work, but it is not for me to criticise. Colonel Montgomery, I think, has caught some Kansas ideas about retribution which hardly belong to civilized warfare. On the 15th of July the regiment was at James Island, and early on the next morning the three companies on picket duty, of which Company H was one, were attacked by a considerable force of the enemy. They behaved very well, and were complimented by the commanding general. The following letter gives an account of the action. off Morris Island, July 17, 1863. dear father,—We have had an engagement on a small scale; all officers safe, but alas for my poor men! Simpkins, Willard, and myself were d