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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 2: preparation for college; Monmouth and Yarmouth Academies (search)
lways easy of attainment and a pleasure, and I began to comprehend better and better all that pertained to English grammar. We did not have the athletics of to-day, but the young men of that school, several older than myself, engaged in many a contest. Wrestling at arm's length and in close hug were favorite sports. Running, jumping, snowballing, and ball playing, as soon as practicable, added to the health and strength of our boys quite as much, I think, as the sports of to-day. Warren Lothrop, who distinguished himself in Mexico and who became a colonel afterwards during the Civil War, was then a fellow student. He was about twenty years of age and of gigantic frame. Henry Mitchell. was always his contestant in the sports. The latter was light of weight, slight of figure, and not so tall as Warren. In wrestling they would contend again and again for the mastery, but at last by his skill and quickness Henry would lay Warren prostrate at every contest. Then they would bo
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 4: cadet at the United States Military Academy (search)
o see him, and sometimes during leisure hours played checkers with him to relieve his loneliness. The next day after my arrival at the post I went to the engineer's barracks situated near the northwest corner of the reservation to look up Warren Lothrop from my home town. He was the first sergeant of the Engineer Company then called the Sappers and Miners. This company had achieved success in the Mexican War and was considered the first of all the companies of enlisted men in the service. er that it will be for your own advantage to separate yourself from your friend while he is in the unfortunate position of an enlisted man. I wasn't yet wise enough to be silent on the subject of what I regarded as wrong. About the year 1854 Lothrop became a second lieutenant and was assigned to the Fourth Artillery. He was promoted, step by step, till he became, during the Civil War, the colonel of a regiment, and he would probably have had higher promotion still had not typhoid fever sei
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
, John A., I, 557-559, 592, 611; II, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24-26, 32, 34, 36-38, 46, 98, 99, 104, 109, 122, 131, 135, 139, 142, 144, 145, 148, 206, 211. Logie, William K., I, 620. Longstreet, James, I, 147, 221, 231, 235, 241, 259-262, 266, 282, 284, 287, 306, 318, 331, 332, 351, 380, 383, 388, 392, 399, 400, 403, 404, 416, 421, 422, 425, 427, 434, 435, 458, 463, 466, 470, 477, 492. Loomis, I. L., I, 80, 81, 84, 87. Loring, William W., I, 574, 578, 579, 616. Lothrop, Warren, I, 23, 24, 50, 51. Lott, Chief, II, 483, 484. Lovejoy, Owen, II, 321. Lovejoy Station, Battle of, II, 41-51. Ludlow, Nicholl, II, 506, 507, 509. Ludwig, Karl Friedrick Wilhelm, II, 534. Luke, William C., II, 386. Lynde, D. B., I, 82, 87. McAllister, Fort, II, 86-100. McArthur, Arthur, I, 27, 28. McCall, George A., I, 172, 174. McCandless, William, I, 439. McCarty, Ellen, I, 63. McCauley, J. A., II, 318. McCleery, James, II, 384-386. McClell