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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
1842. William Logan Rodman. Major 38th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), August 19, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel December 4, 1862; killed at Port Hudson, La., May 27, 1863. the many Boston and Cambridge boys who met thirty years ago at the boarding-school of that fine old-fashioned Englishman, William Wells, in the near neighborhood of Harvard University, can hardly have forgotten one schoolmate who came among us from New Bedford, in the year 1836. He was a large, heavy, rather unwieldy boy, of great personal strength and rather indolent habit, who possessed, by reason of physical proportions, a kind of brevet seniority among his compeers. Neither genius nor the reverse, neither eminent saint nor prominent sinner, he earned a permanent sobriquet from his size, and left behind him chiefly an impression of inertia, of good nature, and of good sense. But those whose acquaintance with him continued through college life will also remember how that cumbrous frame gradually developed int
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
g all, to make thee whole; But could not lose his high desert And place on Memory's record-roll. And when that sacred roll she calls, The word, perchance, will reach his ear, And he shall from the eternal halls, Among God's angels, answer, Here! We will not deem his life was brief, For noble death is length of days; The sun that ripens autumn's sheaf Has poured a summer's wealth of rays. William Sturgis Hooper. Vol. A. D. C. (rank of Captain), Major-General Banks's staff, December 4, 1862; died at Boston, September 24, 1863, of disease contracted in the service. William Sturgis Hooper was born in Boston, March 3, 1833. The name of his father, Samuel Hooper, has been for many years as familiar in the commercial world as it is now in the affairs of the nation. His mother was Anne, daughter of William Sturgis, whose early career, as one of the pioneers of our commerce in the Pacific, and whose later prominence among Boston merchants, are well known in the community. B
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
schances. Finding many discomforts in his place in the ranks, he yet never wavered in his expressions of pleasure at being there. Thus, after describing the hardships of a forced march (November 26, 1862), he adds:— I can honestly say that there has never been a moment since my enlistment when I would have accepted a discharge from the service, however honestly obtained. I feel satisfied now with what I have done; and I never could have, had I remained at home. Again he writes, December 4, 1862:— When we parted, I was a free man; now I am not far from a slave, for a soldier comes the nearest to that of anything. However, it is a voluntary servitude; and, though it may be a little irksome at times, it is one never to be regretted for a single moment. The more I see of the hardships of this sort of life, the more I think what a coward I should have been to have stayed at home and suffered another man to take my place. In another letter, written three days after this,