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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 16 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 8 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
emed every moment to be on the point of becoming a star, but never did. He enlisted as a private soldier and died in hospital, where he had been detailed as nurse. The other had been educated at West Point, and had served in the Florida Indian wars; he was strikingly handsome and mercilessly opinionated; he commanded the first regiment of heavy artillery raised in Massachusetts, did much for the defense of Washington in the early days of the Civil War, and resigned his commission when Governor Andrew refused to see justice done — as he thought-to one of his subordinates. His name was William Batcheldor Greene. But all these companionships were wholly secondary to one which was for me most memorable, and brought joy for a few years and sorrow for many. Going through the doors of Divinity Hall I met one day a young man so handsome in his dark beauty that he seemed like a picturesque Oriental; slender, keen-eyed, raven-haired, he arrested the eye and the heart like some fascinati
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 10 (search)
singers were out of breath. The favorite burden was,-- Tell John Andrew, Tell John Andrew, Tell John Andrew John Brown's dead; with moreJohn Andrew, Tell John Andrew John Brown's dead; with more ribald verses following. It was not many months before those who took part in the meeting and those who tried to suppress it were marching John Andrew John Brown's dead; with more ribald verses following. It was not many months before those who took part in the meeting and those who tried to suppress it were marching southward in uniform, elbow to elbow, singing a very different John Brown song. There was one moment during this session when it seemed asng men in Worcester, who gave me a letter of recommendation to Governor Andrew, that I might ask him to appropriate a sum from his contingent fire of alarm and draw any rebel force away from Washington. Governor Andrew approved the project, but had no contingent fund; Dr. S. G. Hoon of the government became clearer, I obtained authority from Governor Andrew to raise a regiment, and had about half the necessary ten compand the whole affair proved abortive. It was understood with Governor Andrew that while I was to raise the regiment, I was to be only secon