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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1846. (search)
arper's Ferry as follows. His ardent and generous lament for Colonel Barlow will be read with interest; although that brave officer, as all his countrymen now know, recovered from the severe wounds received in battle at Antietam, to fight with the same distinguished gallantry down to the end of the war. Sharpsburg, Sunday Morning, September 21, 1862. At last I think I have time to write a letter,—at least I will run the risk of being ordered to march before ten minutes. Friday, September 12th, I left Washington in search of our regiment, and, after travelling about eighty miles and paying almost fifty dollars, reached them Monday morning, drawn up in line of battle on South Mountain, near the town of Bolivar. At this place there was a severe fight the day previous. Our regiment was not in it, but that night had marched to relieve our troops who had done the fighting. Sunday I hired a hack at Frederick City and followed the regiment to within three miles of the mountain
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1853. (search)
Please notice the words, all of them. For the history of the past fifteen months is the sad record of that want. On September 10th he wrote from Washington: I am here now, two days, getting arms for our recruits. All is reported quiet beyond Rockville, and I do not return till to-morrow. This is the last he wrote us until the morning of the fatal day. From others, we have an account of the intervening days. Chaplain Quint has recorded his return to the regiment on the evening of Friday, September 12th, when his horse bore marks of his haste to find them, the movement of the regiment during the three following days, and his last march on the evening preceding the battle of Antietam, when, at half past 10 they halted. They were roused the next morning at five A. M., by cannonade, and their corps was speedily moved towards the front. At this time he wrote, in pencil, to his mother as follows:— dear mother,—It is a misty, moisty morning. We are engaging the enemy, and are dra
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
ad and butter. I have bought a small kettle of three pints, in which we make soup. September 2.—Sherman reported flanking Hood. In hopes we may be recaptured some time this month. September 6.—Hot days, cold nights. Pity the men without any shelter, and there are thousands. September 7.—Begin to move the men out, some say for exchange, and some; to enter another Bull Pen. September 9.—Still moving out the men. September 11.–--The good work still going on. September 12. At this date, the journal is discontinued, although its writer did not leave Andersonville till the 19th of September. From this time till the 3d of October, the day of his arrival at Savannah, he was on his passage to and from Lovejoy, and wandering in the swamps, having escaped from his captors, though only to fall into the enemy's hands again in a few days. From Savannah he was transferred to Millen, where, on the 30th of October, just three months after his first capture, he
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
bbott, was killed, Weston said, with impressive earnestness, to an intimate friend who thought that the fatal results of the fight should keep him out of the service, You only strengthen me in my resolution; for Abbott was killed just because I and such as I were not in our places to help him. In the latter part of the month of August, 1862, Weston signed the enlistment roll of his company, and with the rest of its members he was mustered into the service of the United States on the 12th of September following. From this time he shared the fortunes of his company, in North Carolina, marching and fighting with it on the Tarborough expedition of November, and in the Goldsborough expedition of the month after. Very early in his experience as a soldier Weston found out —what his friends had feared from the time of his enlistment —that his physical strength was quite inadequate to the exposures of military life. On the first expedition towards Tarborough, and just before the retrea
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
lls 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 September, and left Battery Wharf for Beaufort, North Carolina, on board the transport Merrimac, Thursday, October 23. Beaufort was reached Sunday, October 26, and the regiment immediately proceeded by rail to Newbern, North Carolina, ninety miles doing something to save my country in this terrible civil war. The captain of my company was Spencer W. Richardson of Boston. I went into camp at Readville, Massachusetts, August 29, 1862; was mustered into the service of the United States, September 12th. The regiment left camp October 22d, for Newbern, North Carolina, arriving on Sunday, A. M., October 26th. I was with the regiment in every march, bivouac, and skirmish. The regiment had been in North Carolina but four days before General