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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
ver at a loss for occupation and amusement in the woods and fields, and his tent was the frequent resort of those officers especially whose tendencies of thought were progressive rather than conservative, while one of those who disagreed with his opinions wrote home at this time that he never left Savage's tent without wishing to be a better man. In the autumn the regiment moved from place to place along the Potomac; as described in the following letter. on picket on the Potomac, October 30, 1861. my dearest——,—Your eagerly expected letter of the 27th has just been sent me from camp. I am away on two days picket duty with my company, about a mile and a half from our camp. We are stationed along the canal and river-bank, guarding about two miles of the shore,—a company of the Massachusetts Twelfth being on like duty above, and one of the New York Twenty-eighth below us. My company during the daytime occupies six or seven stations along the river-bank, a sergeant or corpor