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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
the ball to the goal. Yet that you know was a most disheartening time. We were retreating; we feared McClellan would resign as soon as we were in a place of safety; and the campaign in the West seemed almost as disastrous as that in the East. That he bore constantly in mind his liability to pass suddenly from this earth, to him so bright and beautiful, we learn from the careful arrangement of his worldly affairs, and the anxiety he manifested to set his house in order. As early as June 1, 1862, at the time of the battle of Fair Oaks, we find this entry in his memorandum, as if hastily written in pencil: Bills which, in case of my death, I wish paid with money due me by the United States. Also, My watch to be given to my brother Charles, my books to my father and mother, and after their death to Harvard College. And on September 16th, the day before his death, a statement of his affairs, with directions for their settlement, in the event, as he says, of my death in action. Th