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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 506 506 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 279 279 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 141 141 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 64 64 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 55 55 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 43 43 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 43 43 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 34 34 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 32 32 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 29 29 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
end of his sophomore year, he resolved to be fourth or fifth scholar, and a month later his diary contained this caution:— Look out, Higginson, or your resolution, top of page 13, will go to grass! The college term closed on July 19, and he wrote on that day:— My Sophomore year is now over, this day concluding the second term. My rank during this term has been pretty satisfactory (v. p. 8 [of journal]). I must beat Hoffman, however, if possible. When, early in the following October, he went to the President, the latter said to him, You stand very well. I couldn't wish you to stand much better. To the account of this interview, the young student adds, If I only could be 3rd scholar. Two days later he speaks of lounging on the grass of the Delta with various friends, and exclaims, I've given up all hopes of keeping above Parker. A little earlier in that year, Professor Felton had required the youth to translate the soliloquy of Henry V into Greek iambic verse, whic
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VI: in and out of the pulpit (search)
ly seen my nomination for Congress. I did all I could to get Whittier nominated, but he obstinately declined, and it was he who proposed my name. . . . Perhaps I should not have started my [local] newspaper column had I expected this nomination —but now I am in for it, I have no thought of flinching. It will hurt my popularity in Newburyport for they call it ambition &c.—but I trust that time will do me justice. . . . I expect to stump a little and but little. To the same he wrote, October II, 1848:— I shall be glad when the Presidential Campaign is over. I spoke at Haverhill last Monday to a fine large audience—the best I have seen, and the best speech. I always knew I had a fountain of extempore matter in me somewhere—but did not expect to find it tapped so suddenly. . . . I am getting used to seeing my name at the Corners of the Streets. In juvenile days that would have seemed beyond the horizon of earthly ambition, but it don't seem to tell for so much now. I
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
abandoned hope—but not effort—about their arrears. . . . .I am mending at the rate of an inch a week or so. From Pigeon Cove, he wrote in August:— It is strange to come back from the war; one feels like Rip Van Winkle and instinctively grasps round to see if all one's friends are still alive; it is not that one feels old, but only strange, and as if one had been in a trance, during which almost anything might have happened. It was a relief to Colonel Higginson to receive, in October, his order of discharge, having feared that he might be retained in some recruiting or other minor service. After the regiment was disbanded, the Negro soldiers often wrote affectionate letters to their former Colonel, and he was able to help them in various ways. This extract from one of the men's letters gives a fair sample of their loyalty and orthography, I meet manny of the old Soldiers I Spoke of you—all hailed your name with that Emotion (that become you) of the Sould when hearing
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
6. To Boston-Lee and Shepard—meeting of creditors—about that convenient little cup that has slipped from my lips. However I had for two months the sensations of a comfortable income . . . . Sept. 25. Tried in vain to write; I am so heavily weighed down with anxiety and care between M.'s wretched condition and Lee and Co.'s failure that it is almost impossible for me to write. The walls seem only to draw closer around me year by year. But this depression was only temporary, and in October the tables were turned. All my life I have had a sort of Bank of Faith in money matters, wrote the relieved author, when pretty low I always expect a windfall—so to-day came a letter from Lee & Shepard . . . with check for $247. 5 for sales since their failure . . . a very reassuring letter at once removing that uncertainty for the future which was my chief solicitude. This successful history was translated into French in 1875, and two editions were published. In 1876, a Germ<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
ht things for boat, and then rowed over—enjoying it as much as thirty years ago at Pigeon Cove. July 13. Dr. Rogers here, our first meeting for some ten years; enjoyed seeing him, but felt something of that secret pain described in Longfellow's Driftwood Fire. . . . P. M. rowed to Gloucester and back against wind and sea . . . the best pull I have had for years. July 28. Rowed to Gloucester and Ten Pound Island—finding the descendants of Francis Higginson's sweet single rose. In October Margaret went home before her father, and he thus described a day without her:— The day seemed a concentrated solitude and partial death without Margaret and every little starfish and sea urchin she scattered seemed a part of her and too sacred to be touched. It brought home with terrible vividness the possible desolation of a life without her, and by sympathy, more remotely, the blow that it will be to her ardent nature on that day when she must lose me. That is the only drawback on<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
. Pph. Same. (In Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Oct.) Newbury School Committee Report, 1850-51. 89.) Theodore Parker. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.) Def. II. Fayal and the Portuguese. (In Atln an Old Latin Textbook. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.) Def. VII. Book Notice of Verses, by H. H. an Poets of the Republic. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） Short March with the Guard. [Verses.] (In sh Discoverers. (In Harper's Monthly Magazine, Oct.) The last three articles were published later i905). Lodge's Webster. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） Book notices and articles. (In Nation.) 884. Palmer's Odyssey. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） 1885 Larger History of the United Stateso Most Influenced Me. (In Ladies' Home Journal, Oct.） A Young Girl's Library. (In Ladies' Home J The Road to England. (In Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） Articles. (In Nation, Outlook, et al.) tor. (In Contributors' Club, Atlantic Monthly, Oct.） Cambridge Eighty Years Since. (In Proceedi[12 m