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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1856. (search)
een clouded by physical disease and lost in premature death; yet it is their satisfaction to remember that he gave his life to the cause of freedom and his country. Stephen George Perkins. Second Lieutenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), July 8, 1861; first Lieutenant July 11, 1862; killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862. I approach with infinite reluctance one of the most difficult themes for biography to be embraced in these volumes. There hung around Stephen Perkins a peculiae needed fulness and completion to a life otherwise incomplete. But I do not think it was so with Stephen Perkins. With his rare powers, and his sensitive, haughty nature, the course of development was not to be so easily rounded. On the 8th of July, 1861, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts (Infantry); was promoted First Lieutenant in the same month of the following year, and was killed within a month after his promotion. The intermediate period was the most te
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
r affection, the magnanimous generosity of Charlie Mills. Charles Redington Mudge. First Lieutenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 25, 1861; Captain, July 8, 1861; Major, November 9, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 6, 1863; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. Charles Redington Mudge was the son of Enoch Redington nd devotion, he resented with the wrath of a personal indignity the wrong inflicted on the nationality of the United States. The regiment left Massachusetts July 8, 1861; and on the same day Lieutenant Mudge's commission as Captain was dated. On the field of war, among regiments from every quarter of the country, the Second Robert Gould Shaw. Private 7th New York Volunteer Militia, April 19, 1861; Second Lieu. Tenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 28, 1861; first Lieutenant July 8, 1861; Captain, August 10, 1862; Colonel 54th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), April 17, 1863; killed at Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. during the years 1859 and 1860