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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, chapter 37 (search)
ed in the service, February 9, 1863. died of same disease, December 17, 1867. Charles Edward Hickling was born in Roxbury, Mass., April 24, 1841,—the only son of Charles and Eliza Brown (Edes) Hickling. He was the great-greatgrandson of William Hickling, who came from England in 1724, and established himself as a merchant in Boston. He was also the lineal descendant of Governor Bradford, the first Plymouth governor. He was fitted for Harvard College at the private school of Mr. Thomas G. November 5, 1862, when it embarked on the steamer Mississippi, bound for Beaufort, N. C. The troops reached Beaufort on the 14th, and marched at once to Newbern, where they were placed under command of Major-General Foster. In December, Sergeant Hickling took part in the ten-days' expedition to destroy the railroad-bridge at Gouldsboroa, during which he was engaged in four battles and marched one hundred and eighty miles. He was well during the whole march, but was attacked with typho-malar