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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
d troops in St. Louis—poor things. I shall send them on through Iowa, where Stowell has gone before them. At St. Louis, Mr. Higginson chartered a steamboat to take the party up the Mississippi to Davenport, Iowa. This party, led by a certain Dr. Cutter, had been charged by a Missouri paper with cowardice. To this charge Mr. Higginson responded in the Boston Journal: I have seen frightened men, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, and I never saw men look less like them than did Dr. Cutter's partyDr. Cutter's party. I went out to St. Louis partly to see how they had stood fire, and partly to give them instructions for the future. My instructions were, if they met a party of Missourians not larger than five to one, to fight to the last rather than surrender. This party of forty men had surrendered to three thousand of the enemy by whom they were disarmed and turned back. I almost hoped to hear, he wrote to the Tribune, that some of their lives had been sacrificed, for it seems as if nothing but that