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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
f hard fighting. Just as the command got under fire I remember giving him an order to carry to Major Nutt of his own regiment. The fire was rather severe at the time, and the formal military salute with which he received that last order was noticeable. Shortly afterwards he fell, shot in the head, directly in front of the enemy's battery, cheering and urging on the men, he himself being on horseback. His gallantry was conspicuous to the enemy, who gave his body an honorable burial. Colonel Colcock, commanding a portion of the enemy's force in that action, says that he saw his body about three hundred yards from their guns after the battle, and that he was struck by his beautiful appearance, and ordered a party to bury the remains. Thus fell this true Christian gentleman and soldier. No purer offering has been laid on the altar of freedom. Horace Sargent Dunn. Second Lieutenant 22d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), October 1; 1861; died at New York, May 22, 1862, of disease cont
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
s, II. 425. Chapin, Samuel, II. 425. Chapman, Jonathan, I. 29. Chase, C. C., II. 77. Chesborough, Mr., I. 152. Child, F. J., Prof., I. 432; II. 397. Choate, C. F., II. 199. Choate, R., Lieut., II. 186. Christ, Col., I. 100. Clark, D., Hon., I. 90. Clarke, J. F., Rev., I. 72; II. 13,14. Clarke, J. J., I. 380. Clay, Henry, Hon., I. 82. Codman, O., II. 262. Cogswell, J. G., I. 29. Cogswell, Wm., Col., I. 412, 413;; II. 85,146, 147, 148, 448, 449. Colcock, Col. (Rebel service), II. 381. Cooke, J. P., Prof., II. 209, 277;, 281, 375. Copeland, R. M., Maj., I. 319, 321;. Cotting, B. E., Dr., I. 133. Couch, D. N., Maj.-Gen., I. 214, 426;, 427. Coulter, Col., II. 222. Cozzens, F. S., I. 94. Cradlebaugh, J., Colonel, II. 438. Crane, E., Maj.-Gen., II. 374. Crane, Peter, Major, I. 72. Crane, P. M., Dr., II. 374. Crane, Susan H. D., II. 374. Crane, W. D., Capt., Memoir, II. 364, 365;, 366. Also, II. 368, 370;, 37