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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 28 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 16 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
their disaster Sunday taught them the impossibility of success, and Monday was quiet. The battle was followed by twelve days of extremely fatiguing duty, which very few of the regiment bore as well as Lowell. He writes thus to his classmate Hartwell:β€” Our fight of the 31st and 1st was followed by the hardest work yet put before us,β€”ten days of unceasing vigilance in the face of the enemy. Rain or shine, night or day, we were under arms at the slightest alarm, and remained in line forf his success. He knew nothing of what was preparing for the Army of the Potomac, and very little of what was going on. Like a true soldier, he was intent on doing what his hand found to do, even though he was working in the dark. He writes to Hartwell on the 26th:β€” Sunday [22d] was a quiet day with us, but we have since had skirmishes at our front, in which we were generally rumored to be advancing, and yet found our forces in their old position at night, the movements being merely reco<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
lly and morally impossible . . . . Captain Crane, who was acting as aid to Colonel Hartwell, fell in the stream, horse and rider being instantly killed by canister. e woods and at the wayside, all the ranker for their baptism of blood. Colonel Hartwell (Fifty-fifth Massachusetts) thus describes these two officers .of his regiolunteer Infantry, and an officer in the Fifty-fifth; and by Brevet Brigadier-General Alfred S. Hartwell, under whose command Captain Crane served to the moment of hng lest he should be ordered back, he volunteered to act upon the staff of Colonel Hartwell, commanding the brigade of which the Fifty-fifth formed a part. To his gr which mine was one, became engaged on the right, the main body, headed by Colonel Hartwell and Captain Crane (on horseback), charged directly through the narrow gorgwho remained. The men of his company almost idolized him. Brevet Brigadier-General A. S. Hartwell thus describes the same occurrence:β€” In November, 1865,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1865. (search)
te. His decision gave great pleasure to his friends, who knew his previous anxiety to join a different service, and who had refrained from expressing their wishes in this respect, because they would not interfere with the freedom of his choice. He entered the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, commanded by Colonel Robert G. Shaw, in company with Adjutant Garth Wilkinson James, to whom he was deeply attached, and his very kind friend and adviser, Captain (afterwards Brevet Brigadier-General) A. S. Hartwell. Captain Simpkins joined the regiment at a later period. Cabot served at first as Second Lieutenant in Captain Hartwell's company, but soon received the command of Company H, then newly forming. He found the men neither so awkward nor so dull of apprehension as he had supposed, and the ridicule he had expected did not annoy him. After the first burst of laughter was over, he says, I have had nothing to stand against, and sympathy from a great many quarters where I did not expect it.