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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
out twenty thousand had passed through his hands since September. The sceptics need only to come out here to be converted. On the 2d of May he was married to Anne Kneeland, daughter of Ogden Haggerty, Esq., of New York; and on the 28th of the same month he left Boston at the head of as fine and well drilled a regiment as had ever left the city. Their triumphal march through Boston has been often described. He himself wrote of it thus:— steamer de Molay, off Cape Hatteras, June 1, 1863. The more I think of the passage of the Fifty-fourth through Boston, the more wonderful it seems to me. Just remember our own doubts and fears, and other people's sneering and pitying remarks, when we began last winter, and then look at the perfect triumph of last Thursday. We have gone quietly along, forming the regiment, and at last left Boston amidst a greater enthusiasm than has been seen since the first three months troops left for the war. . . . . Truly, I ought to be thankful f