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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
e-regiments. Now, General Saxton was a Massachusetts man; so was the colonel whom he put in charge of the regiment (T. W. Higginson); so was the first officer, detailed Aug. 4, 1862, to recruit for the 1st Kansas colored regiment (Capt. R. J. Hintoof the South,—he being a Massachusetts man, —and that its organization was intrusted to another Massachusetts man, Col. T. W. Higginson. The surgeon and first assistant surgeon, the chaplain, a captain and several lieutenants were also from Massachuharleston and Savannah railroad and cut it. See General Gillmore's report in Official War Records, 46, p. 8, and Colonel Higginson's report, p. 194. Compare Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment. Due credit should also be given the State Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment. Due credit should also be given the State of Massachusetts for the enormous service rendered by General Saxton as military governor in organizing the vast number of freedmen and refugees upon the Sea Islands, and first proving, on a large scale, that the plantations could be successfully ca