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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
d hither and thither, through the miry ways of Virginia; and was occasionally allowed time hastily to construct winter-quarters, only, as it seemed, in order to be straightway summoned therefrom. At last, on the 27th of April, it began a series of manoeuvrings which had as their end another of the great struggles of the war,—the battle of Chancellorsville. For some days they had marched and skirmished incessantly. On the 2d of May they threw up a slight defence of logs near United States Ford; but in the afternoon they were ordered out to capture what was supposed to be a wagon-train, but proved to be Stonewall Jackson's Rebel corps. Colonel Quincy was at this time, strictly speaking, in command; but that gallant officer, though exerting himself to the utmost, was so disabled and weakened by severe wounds from which he had by no means recovered, as to throw an unusual responsibility upon Lieutenant-Colonel Cogswell. A harassing night was passed amid constant skirmishing and fir
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
th. He went by low stages to Lenox, Massachusetts, suffering no drawback. His health was rapidly restored, and he rejoined his regiment in the same year, November 16, 1862, at Fort Scott, Virginia, near Washington. On the 9th of March, 1863, Captain Barker was taken prisoner with Brigadier-General E. H. Stoughton, they having. been surprised in their-beds at midnight by Mosby, near Fairfax Court-House. The General and his staff were betrayed into the hands of the Philistines by Miss Antonia J. Ford,—Honorary Aid-de-Camp to the Rebel General Stuart; she had planned the capture with Rebel officers. When near Centreville, on his way to Richmond, Captain Barker made a desperate effort to escape. He was on a strange horse, without saddle, and surrounded by fifteen or twenty Rebel cavalrymen; but, watching his opportunity, he suddenly wheeled,—in the effort unhorsing several of the enemy,—succeeded in getting clear of the guard, and dashed off, the Rebels in full pursuit; a dozen or<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
ssenden, J. M., Col., I. 24. Field, W. P., II. 270. Fisher, T. W., Dr., I. 232, 233;. Fiske, Augustus H., I. 243. Fiske, Sarah R., I. 243. Fitzhugh, E. P., II. 415. Fletcher, Dr., I. 120. Fletcher, George, II. 426, 427;. Fletcher, G. N., I. 389. Fletcher, Governor, I. 1, 2;. Fletcher, James, II. 426, 427;. Fletcher, Samuel, Lieut., II. 426,427,429,431. Follansbee, A. S., Col., II. 451. Forbes, J. M., I. 300. Forbes W. H., Major, II. 185, 329;, 330. Ford, Antonia J., II. 359. Foster, J. G., Maj.-Gen., I. 231, 233;, 372; II. 264, 370;, 391, 392, 393. Foster, Lieut., II. 252. Fowle, George, I. 307. Fox, Feroline W. . II. 115. Fox, T. B., II. 115. Fox, T B., Jr., Capt., Memoir, II. 115,123. Also, II. 149, 159;. Francis, James, Major, II. 184. Franklin, W. B., Maj.-Gen., I. 144, 213;, 217; II. 168,170. Frazier, D. R., I. 356. Freeman, H , II. 362. Fremont, J. C., Maj.-Gen., . I 162, 364; II. 350. French, E.