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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
was promised the Adjutancy; but yielding it to a German, he was made Lieutenant, July 16th, and, on the 24th, senior Captain. The rendezvous was Camp Dennison. While he was here drilling the Rebels made their feint on Cincinnati, and suddenly, on the night of September 3d, the One Hundred and Sixth was ordered into Kentucky, badly armed and imperfectly equipped and disciplined. Company A, however, as being the best drilled, was actively employed in scouting and picketing. On the 13th of September their station was Tunnel Batteries, Kentucky, near Cincinnati. On the 23d they went from Covington to Louisville, which they found in chaos, owing to the disorderly arrival of Buell's retreating army. In four days the regiment was placed in as many different brigades, and with poor tents, no overcoats, and Austrian rifles, the One Hundred and Sixth fared hardly. On the 1st of October Gholson left Louisville for Columbus on business, and wrote from the latter place on the 3d, havin