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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
g army and navy list; and when death took away one after another of those whose names were there recorded, he said to himself, The places of these brothers must be filled. Is it not my turn now? In his biographies of his classmates,—Almy and Doolittle,—to be found later in this volume, this working of inward solicitude is to be plainly traced. When permission was finally obtained for Massachusetts to send out colored regiments, and he saw how they would need brave, intelligent, sympathizimself worthy of the confidence reposed in him, and of the affection of which he was the centre. But these things cannot be told. It is enough to say here that, unselfish and devoted, he lived for others and he died for his country. Henry Jonus Doolittle Captain and A. D. C. (U. S. Vols.), April, 1862; died at Racine, Wis., August 10, 1862, of disease contracted in the service. Henry Jonas Doolittle was born March 4, 1839, in Rochester, New York, the son of James R. and Mary Lovin