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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
slaves. Strange it seems to me that I, who so sincerely accept the principles of peace, should be mixed up in this terrible war. But I see no way in which England can get cotton speedily except through our success. England ought to help us with her benedictions, for she is interested next to ourselves. But her adverse sympathies help put off the good day. All here are grateful to you for your strong and noble words. God bless you! I say with all my heart. To the Duchess of Argyll, August 11:— At last I am at home, after eight months of uninterrupted labor at Washington. The late Congress was one of the most important legislative bodies of which there is any record. Few have acted on so many important measures, relating to army, navy, tariff, taxation; and then the great questions of a railroad to the Pacific; a free homestead on the public lands to all actual settlers; emancipation in the District of Columbia; prohibition of slavery in all the outlying Territories; th
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
of the President's plan inevitable, and counselled trust in an overruling Providence, adding, I know the potency of your great idea of the duty of a statesman to create rather than to be controlled by circumstances; but this creation requires time. Three members of the Cabinet—Speed, Harlan, and Dennison—who were then deaf to Sumner's entreaties, retired from it in a twelve month, unwilling to compromise themselves by further association with the Administration. Sumner wrote to Lieber, August 11:— The attorney-general (Speed) is the best of the Cabinet; but they are all courtiers, unhappily, as if they were the counsellors of a king. Preston King and Mr. Blair went to the President when he was intoxicated, and took him away from the hotel and sheltered him at the house of Mr. Blair. Hinc amicitia! Sumner's correspondence at the time discloses little sympathy with his steadfast support of colored suffrage against the President's plan. Members of Congress were confused b<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
sition, the blacks have done wonderfully well. They should have had a Moses as President; but they have found a Pharaoh, as I have often said. Reconstruction should have had sympathy and support, with gentle breezes always in the right direction, while it has had enmity and position, with adverse gales and storms. I hope that we can save it under the next Administration. I read the duke's speech with great interest, and the bishop's, and am glad Longfellow was there. To Mr. Bright, August 11:— It is long since we have exchanged letters, and I now employ my last moments before leaving for Boston to keep alive our correspondence. Events have been in more active than any pens, whether in England or the United States. I watch with constant interest the increasing strength of the liberal cause, and look forward to its accession to power with you as home secretary, at least, if you choose to enter a cabinet. Mr. Bright became in December, 1868, President of the Board of T
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
reasonable and unnecessary and very unfortunate jealousy. Of a different temper was Sumner in dealing with old coadjutors. He thus wrote to Whittier:— I have not read Mr. Garrison's letter. Some one said it was unkind, and I made up my mind at once not'to read it,—of course, never to answer it. I never allowed myself to have controversy with him in other days when we differed on methods, because I knew he was earnest against slavery. I shall join in no controversy now. Again, August 11:— Never have I acted more absolutely under the mandate of duty, not to be disobeyed, than in my present course. Profoundly convinced of Grant's unfitness, and feeling that a man like Greeley, President, would mark an epoch for .humanity, I could not resist the opportunity, especially when Democrats took him as their candidate, and pledged themselves to all that is contained in the Cincinnati platform. From the beginning, while insisting upon all possible securities and safeguards, <
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 11: no. 19
Boylston place
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I make a great effort to get its points thoroughly in my mind. Go late to the Barnards'. The scientifics arrive very late, Agassiz gets there at 9. I begin to read soon after. The ladies of our party are all there. I feel a certain enthusiasm in my work and subject, but do not communicate it to the audience, which seemed fatigued and cold; all at least but Pierce, Agassiz, and Davis. Had I done well or ill to read it? . . . Some soul may have carried away a seed-grain of thought. August 11.... To Mount Holyoke in the afternoon. The ascent was frightful, the view sublime. In the evening went to read to the insane people at the asylum; had not Later Lyrics, but Passion Flowers. Read from this and recited from the other. Had great pleasure in doing this, albeit under difficulties. Finished second Tribune letter and sent it. Back at the Valley, she plunges once more into Fichte; long hours of study, varied by picnics and sailing parties. To church at St. Mary's. X.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Eighth battery Massachusetts Light Artillery (Militia). (search)
s. 1862. Sept. 14, South Mountain, Md.,–11 Active also at Manassas, Va., and Antietam, Md. The 8th Battery was recruited by Asa M. Cook in response to the call of the President of the United States for troops, May 26, 1862, and on June 25 it left Boston for Washington. A serious railroad accident, in which 2 men and 13 horses belonging to the battery were killed, caused a delay of two days at Trenton, N. J. Reaching the Capitol, it encamped several weeks at Fairfax Seminary. On August 11 it joined the 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, at Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, Va., and on August 17 was stationed seven miles south of Culpeper, Va. Part of the battery was stationed at Barnett's Ford, Va., from August 20 to 23, one section being engaged in a skirmish near Sulphur Springs, Va. It was engaged at the battle of Manassas Aug. 30, 1862, and at Chantilly, Va., September 1. On September 14 it was engaged at South Mountain, Md., losing 1 man killed and 4 wounded. At the batt
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Fiftieth regiment Massachusetts Infantry (Militia). (search)
fficers,1––––––––––––1 Enlisted men,––8152128654819–87 Totals,–––––––––––––88 Died as prisoners,— Officers,–––––––––––––– Enlisted men,–––––––––––––– Total losses,— Officers,1––––––––––––1 Enlisted men,––8152128754819–88 Totals,–––––––––––––89 Casualties by Engagements. 1863. May 27, Port Hudson, La.,–––––––1–––––1 Locke, being delayed in quarantine at New Orleans, did not rejoin the command until April 2. The regiment was assigned to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 19th Corps, and shared in the movement to Port Hudson March 14, and four companies took part in an expedition to the Bayou Monticeno, on the road to Port Hudson, April 9. It was active during the siege of Port Hudson, taking part in the assault of May 27. After the surrender it was detailed on garrison duty within the fortifications until
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Fifty-sixth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
ding non-commissioned staff.1–2528668734–52 Died as prisoners, Including 2 in Co. C, supposed died in prison.— Officers,–––––––––––––– Enlisted men,––1354446795–48 Total losses,— Officers,15–––––––––––6 Enlisted men, Including non-commissioned staff.1–14142124192421232715–203 Totals,–––––––––––––209 Casualties by Engagements. 1864. May 3-12, Wilderness, Va.,1–7314–32111–24 May 10-21, Spotsylvania, Va.,––1122321213–18 May 24, North Anna River,Va.,–11–221–1–21–11 May 31, Bethesda Church, Va.,–11–––––1–1––4 June 3, Shady Grove Church, Va.–1–––––––––––1 June 17-18, Petersburg, Va.,–1–15–22––2––13 June 23-27, Before Petersburg,Va.,––––––––––21–3 July 6-13, Before Petersburg,Va.,–––––1––––1––2 July 30, Petersburg, Va.(Crater),––––2–32–31––11
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., First Company Sharpshooters Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
til the spring of 1863, sharing in the peninsular campaign, and losing heavily in the charge at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, where Captain Saunders and First Lieutenant Berry were killed. Second Lieutenant Martin took command of the company after the battle until the arrival of Capt. William Plumer from Massachusetts with forty recruits, Dec. 9, 1862. On April 17, 1863, the company was attached to the 2d Division, 2d Corps, and served with it at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. About the 11th of August it was ordered to join the 20th Mass. Infantry, and, serving under First Sergeant Gilbreth, took active part at the battle of Bristoe Station, October 14, and engaged afterward in the Mine Run Campaign. It served with the 20th Regiment during the Wilderness Campaign, and lost its commanding officer, Lieutenant Gilbreth, at Petersburg, June 18. Soon afterward those who remained of the company were attached to the 19th Mass. Infantry, and were identified with its members until their mus
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1853. (search)
ext day he wrote from Washington:— I am here to see about my exchange, &c. I am sorry you had so much anxiety about me, but thankful to be able to relieve it. My reception by the regiment is reward enough. I must get back to them. His return was long delayed; and of all the trials of his life, this was the greatest. This is not the life for me, he said repeatedly, during the weeks when he was flattered and caressed at home. A still severer trial awaited him. On Monday, A. M., August 11th, the day on which his exchange was effected, he heard of the battle of Cedar Mountain, in which his regiment had lost so heavily. Every true soldier can appreciate the bitterness of his feeling, at hearing that his regiment had been in action without him. The loss of his friends who had fallen cut him to the heart. He suffered as he had never suffered before. Some hours were given to visiting the friends of the wounded and the killed, and to making arrangements for serving them. Then
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