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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 11 (search)
o be First Lieutenant, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862, where killed, to date from Dec. 13, 1862. G. O. 91, Oct. 9, 1867. — Brevet First Lieutenant Thomas, late Second Lieutenant of the 19th Mass. Volunteers, to be Captain, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862, to date from Dec. 13, 1862. G. O. 91, Oct. 9, 1867 Clapp, Channing, late Captain, Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 84, Oct. 14, 1868. Clarke, Captain H. C., Aide-de-Camp, U. S. Volunteers, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for meritorious services in the Department of the Gulf, and for gallant conduct in the bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi River, and in the attack by the enemy on Battery
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
included other soldiers. This society raised nearly $4,000 in money, and sent to the men 4,969 articles of clothing, one-third of which were flannel. Miss Dorothea L. Dix was a native of Worcester, Mass. In early life she became very much interested in prison reform, at a time when the inmates of penal institutions were shockingly neglected, and were almost wholly at the mercy of unprincipled and unfeeling keepers. She was aided and encouraged in her work by her friend and pastor, Rev. Dr. Channing, of whose children she had been governess. Energetic in character, humane and kindly in spirit, the work grew on her hands, until not only prisoners, but paupers and the insane, were included in her voluntary mission of philanthropy, which she early accepted as the work of her life. In pursuance of it she visited every State in the Union east of the Rocky Mountains, examining prisons, poor-houses and insane asylums, and endeavoring to persuade legislatures and influential people to t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
, 256 Chambers, J. G., 209 Chambers, J. L., 26 Champlin, J. D., Jr., 634 Champney, F. W., 256 Champney, J. A., 209, 256, 513 Champney, L. C., 634 Champney, W. R., 581 Chandler, C. L., 209 Chandler, C. P., 209 Chandler, E. A., 256 Chandler, E. A., 256 Chandler, Frederick, 256 Chandler, I. A., 26 Chandler, J. A., 26 Chandler, J. G., 406, 513 Chandler, J. W., 28 Chandler, P. W., 635 Chandler, S. E., 461 Chandler, William, 28 Chandley, G. B., 256 Channell, A. M., 256 Channing, W. E., 594 Chapell, E. S., 28 Chapin, E. F., 581 Chapin, Eugene, 28 Chapin, F. A., 256 Chapin, F. B., 256 Chapin, F. L., 581 Chapin, H. D., 581 Chapin, Herman, 581 Chapin, J. L., 256 Chapin, M. P., 407 Chapin, Samuel, 256 Chapin, T. E., 28 Chapman, Andrew, 256 Chapman, C. H., 256, 461, 486 Chapman, F. L., 581 Chapman, Faulkner, 581 Chapman, G. H., 172, 407, 462, 513 Chapman, G. R., 581 Chapman, G. T., 28 Chapman, Gates, Jr., 581 Chapman, J. H., 28 Chapman, Jonathan, 28