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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
rolina. It is a very magnificent game of bluff that we are playing. I felt pretty nervous for the first two days, but since they commenced fire on Folly I feel a good deal easier in my mind. The Secesh pickets act just as they used to, out in the field in front. They come down and brandish their sabres from the house nearest our lines, innocent men that they are. But we have got to be careful, and particularly prompt in getting out of the way if they advance in force. Morris Island, August 11. At last I have another chance to write you. It happens to be decently cool at this moment, that is, one can sit still in his shirtsleeves, with the sides of the tent all raised, and not be in a perspiration. Moreover, the tent has been made comparatively decent by the exertions of W—— and myself. Above all, I am neither on guard or fatigue, therefore I have a chance to write a little. . . . . I hope A——is strong again, since you say he is coming out. If he feels fresh and energet
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
very warm night. August7.—Had a good night's sleep, notwithstanding the weather; took a bath and washed my shirt and drawers, the only ones I have. Pants well worn. Sent a letter home. Another man shot near the dead-line. August 9.—About noon rained very hard, washed down part of the stockade, and wet us all. No rations. August 10.—Drew half rations bread and boiled beans. Could not eat the beans. Rained hard; in the afternoon drew some boiled beef with no bread. August 11 .—Drew beans, bread, and beef. August 13.—A very hot day. A great many have died within a few days. Fresh beef, beans, and corn-bread. August 15. —The fever is abating which has for a few days prevailed in the camp on the subject of exchange. I dread the idea of a winter campaign in this hole. Not so many deaths for the last two or three days. One has no idea of the sights in this place. Horrible! Men ought not to be kept in this state on any conditions. August 16.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
and Secretary of the Mutual-Improvement Club; and his departure caused a gap which it was found very difficult to fill. When the war broke out he was a member of the Harvard Cadets, whose services were tendered to the Governor. Their going into the service was, however, opposed by the Faculty, and the offer was not accepted. A year later, however, Crane, with ten or a dozen other young men from East Boston, enlisted in Company D, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. This was on the 11th of August. Daily drills were had in Boylston Hall and on Boston Common until Friday, August 29. At that time the military ardor of the people was so great, that most of the stores closed at two P. M., and the entire populace turned out to witness drills upon the Common or parades through the streets. The Forty-fourth went into camp at Readville on the 29th of August, and began at once the regular routine of camp life. The men were mustered into the service of the United States on the 12th of S
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
ng just as they did last year. It is a most comfortable place; a fine old rambling house, with a rich lawn,—which they are just now shaving, though it looks, in Milton's phrase, close shaven already,and on one side of it an ancient picturesque church, such as you often see standing just in the right place to ornament an English landscape. . . . . In the evening we had most cheerful talk on all sorts of matters, for few persons have more richly stored minds than Mr. Harcourt . . . . Tuesday, August 11.—After a cheerful breakfast Mr. Harcourt and I, at eleven o'clock, got into the train for York, and arrived there in twenty minutes. The old city looked natural, but its streets and shops are gayer than they were. . . . . On arriving we went first to the Museum, as they call it, with its beautiful grounds, and the remains of a Roman wall, and the graceful ruins of a rich abbey of the fourteenth century. It did not seem two-and-twenty years since I saw them last. Nor did it seem so l
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
Boston Evening Journal, Aug. 9, 1862, p. 2, col. 6; Aug. 11, p. 2, cols. 1, 4, p. 4, col. 6; Aug. 12, p. 2, colon Evening Journal, Aug. 9, 1862, p. 4, cols. 1, 4; Aug. 11, p. 1, cols. 1, 2, p. 2, col. 1, p. 3, col. 5, p. 4Boston Evening Journal, Aug. 9, 1862, p. 2, col. 6; Aug. 11, p. 2, cols. 1, 4, p. 4, col. 6; Aug. 12, p. 2, colBoston Evening Journal, Aug. 9, 1862, p. 2, col. 6; Aug. 11, p. 2, cols. 1, 4, p. 4, col. 6; Aug. 12, p. 2, col, p. 2, col. 1, p. 4, col. 1; Aug. 8, p. 4, col. 3; Aug. 11, p. 4, col. 2. —Bounties not given. Boston Even, p. 2, col. 1, p. 4, col. 1; Aug. 8, p. 4, col. 3; Aug. 11, p. 4, col. 3. — – Bounties raised enormously, a, p. 2, col. 6; Aug. 9, p. 2, col. 5, p. 4, col. 4; Aug. 11, p. 2, cols. 5, 6; Aug. 12, p. 2, cols. 4, 5; Aug. on Evening Journal, Aug. 9, 1862, p. 4, cols. 1, 4; Aug. 11, p. 1, cols. 1, 2, p. 2, col. 1, p. 3, col. 5, p. 4oston Evening Journal, Aug. 10, 1863, p. 2, col. 5; Aug. 11, p. 2, col. 5; Aug. 12, p. 2, col. 5. — 1863. S
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 6: (search)
horse died, disease, worn out. August 8. Received notice of the death of First Serg't Otis N. Harrington. He died of Chronic Diarrhea on his way to Mt. Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C. Serg't G. H. Putnam promoted First Sergeant, vice Harrington deceased. August 9. Private Butterfield reported to quarters. B. H. Phillips reported for duty. August 10. Privates Northey, Chase, Pierce (?), Thayer and Peach reported for duty. Private N. H. Butterfield reported to quarters. August 11. Private A. F. Southworth reported to quarters. G. L. Clark reported for light duty. August 12. Privates Southworth, Colbath, Baxter and Ring reported for duty; Stowell reported to quarters. Three horses unserviceable. August 13. Private C. Gould promoted Sergeant. Sergeant Woodfin reported to quarters. August 14. Private Norman H. Butterfield reported for duty. August 15. One horse died, glanders. Five horses unserviceable. August 16. Private J. W. Thayer reported to qu
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
Putnam's column, was by the side of that officer when he was killed. He bore testimony to the care of the Federal wounded, saying that General Beauregard's order directed that special care be taken of the wounded captured at Wagner, as men who were brave enough to go in there deserved the respect of the enemy; and that the effects, money and papers, belonging to members of the Sixty-seventh Ohio who died in Charleston hospital, were sent through the lines by flag of truce. About the 11th of August, during a heavy fire on Wagner, a 15-inch shell burst in one of the gun chambers, doing much damage, and mortally wounding and killing several at the gun. Among the former was First Sergt. T. H. Tynes, Company A, Lucas' battalion of artillery. Capt. John H. Gary, seeing his gallant sergeant fall, went at once to him, and was overcome by the sight of his terrible wound. I am dying, Captain, but I am glad it is me, and not you. Devoted to his sergeant, Gary burst into tears, when Tynes
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
800 feet long, by burning in it a long train loaded with bacon and other supplies, that it could not be repaired for several months. He then destroyed a bridge between Gallatin and Nashville, and forty cars, and withdrew to Hartsville, thirteen miles east of Gallatin, where he went into camp. Pending this disaster, General Buell had as a precautionary measure sent Brig.-Gen. Richard W. Johnson, a West Pointer, and regarded as one of the best officers in the service, from McMinnville, August 11th, in the direction of Gallatin. His command consisted of about 700 cavalry, made up of detachments of the Second Indiana, Lieut.-Col. R. R. Stewart; Fifth Kentucky, Major Winfrey; Fourth Kentucky, Captain Chilson, and Seventh Pennsylvania, Colonel Wynkoop. He seems to have made slow progress, as he did not reach the vicinity of Hartsville until the 19th, when he first became aware of General Morgan's whereabouts. In the meantime the latter had moved to Gallatin, and on the 21st, General
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
y was getting ready, in July, to occupy the Arkansas valley and march upon Little Rock. On the 27th, by special orders of General Grant, Maj.-Gen. Frederick Steele was assigned to the command of the army, to take the field from Helena, and on August 11th he assumed command of all of Arkansas north of Arkansas river. His military force included the infantry divisions of Col. W. E. McLean and Gen. S. A. Rice, present for duty, 4,493; cavalry under Gen. J. W. Davidson and Colonel Clayton, present for duty, 4,652; and artillery, total present for duty, 9,433; aggregate present, 13, 207. The field artillery included 49 pieces. With this strong force the Federal movement began on August 11th, the infantry marching from Helena by easy stages, with complete supply trains. The estimate of Confederate troops present for duty in the district of Arkansas, exclusive of Steele's division, and not allowing for the losses at Helena, was as follows: Price's division, Arkansas brigades of Fagan,
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
he Eleventh Alabama infantry. It was not until the spring of 1862 that they had their first experience of fierce battle. At Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm he led his company. In the last named of these battles the regiment made a famous charge across an open field upon a battery strongly supported by infantry. Though severely wounded in this bloody struggle by a fragment of shell, which badly tore the deeper tissues of his leg, he remained on the field until after dark. August 11th he rejoined the regiment and took command of it. At the battle of Sharpsburg he was wounded in the face by pebbles thrown up by a cannon ball. On the return to Virginia he was commissioned colonel. At Fredericksburg he was under fire again, and during the Chancellorsville campaign he was conspicuous for gallantry at Salem church. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the knee by a minie ball. During the winter of 1863-64 he was president of the division court-martial. In the Wilderness (M
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