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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
on Canaan's shore. April 25 . .. I never yet saw a chapter in life which was not good, no matter what people called it. During the last months of Colonel Higginson's stay in camp, a curious accident happened which left a permanent scar on his forehead. He thus wrote about the event. March 11, 1864 It rained furiousbeen in a cavalry fight, which had turned out better than I could have expected. Not recovering from the effects of his wound received the previous year, Colonel Higginson was obliged to resign from the army in April, 1864. The remaining letters were written after Higginson's return to the North, to his mother and sisters. WoHigginson's return to the North, to his mother and sisters. Worcester, September 30, 1864 I hear good accounts from my regiment and a funny description of dear old Uncle York asleep beneath a tree, primer in hand, while a pet crow belonging to the regiment hops stealthily up, steals the book, and flies to a branch above the slumbering veteran's head, where he awakes him by tearing out the