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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1828. (search)
of the master. . . . Great pains were taken by General Wadsworth to facilitate the change of these people from bondage to freedom. He organized a contraband bureau, established permanent quarters, taught the poor blacks how to work for themselves, and made the confiscated goods of the blockade supply their wants. Amid political and military embarrassments, he succeeded in pioneering the way to practical emancipation while commanding the fortifications and twenty-four thousand troops. Gurowski says, in his Diary, that he was the good genius of the fugitive negroes. But for him, great numbers of them would have been remanded to the slave-whip. In the autumn of 1862, and while he was still in command of Washington, he received the Union nomination for Governor of New York. This had been offered to him, in 1848, by the Free-Soil Democrats, and again, in 1856, by the Republicans, but he had declined it on both occasions. He now thought it to be his duty to accept the position,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
. 270. Grant, Moses, II. 372. Grant, U. S., Gen., I. 15, 16;. 91, 165, 177 II. 56, 100;, 101, 266. Gray, Asa, Prof., II. 374. Gray, Horace, Jr., Judge, I, 255, 259; II. 24. Gray, John, Rev., I. 42. Green, Dr., I. 229. Green, Mr., I. 29. Greene, J. D., Lieut.-Col., II. 405. Greene, W. B., Col., I. 52, 411;. Griffin, J. Q. A., I. 336. Grosvenor, G. J., Hon., I. 138. Grosvenor, Virginia T., I. 138. Grover, C., Brig.-Gen., I. 68. Guild, Dr., II. 221. Gurowski, Adam, Count, I. 12. Guthrie, James, Hon., I. 153. H. Hack, C. A., I. 346. Hack, Daniel, Memoir, I. 346-348. Hack, Sarah, I. 346. Hale, E. E., Rev., I. 42. Hale, Major (Rebel service), I. 443. Hall, Colonel, I. 426; II. 454. Hall, E. H., Rev., I. 234. Hall, Elizabeth, II. 124. Hall, H. W., Adjutant, Memoir, II. 124-132. Also, II. 116, 117;. Hall, N., II. 124. Hall, N. J., II. 309, 312;. Hallowell, Col., I. 65; II. 189, 210;, 214, 251, 365. Hamil